Larry E Baldwin

US Patent:

8073681, Dec 6, 2011

Filed:

Oct 16, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/580926

Inventors:

Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Tom Freeman - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael Tjalve - Bellevue WA, US
Blane Ebersold - Seattle WA, US
Chris Weider - Everett WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/27
G10L 21/00
G10L 11/00

US Classification:

704 9, 704270, 704275

Abstract:

A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and an adaptive response may be generated for the user. Responses may be worded based on the degrees of certainty and to frame an appropriate domain for a subsequent utterance. In one implementation, misrecognitions may be tolerated, and conversational course may be corrected based on subsequent utterances and/or responses.

US Patent:

8140335, Mar 20, 2012

Filed:

Dec 11, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/954064

Inventors:

Michael R. Kennewick - Bellevue WA, US
Catherine Cheung - Sammamish WA, US
Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Ari Salomon - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael Tjalve - Bellevue WA, US
Sheetal Guttigoli - Kirkland WA, US
Lynn Armstrong - Woodinville WA, US
Philippe Di Cristo - Bellevue WA, US
Bernie Zimmerman - Seattle WA, US
Sam Menaker - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G10L 15/00

US Classification:

704257, 704 9, 704270

Abstract:

A conversational, natural language voice user interface may provide an integrated voice navigation services environment. The voice user interface may enable a user to make natural language requests relating to various navigation services, and further, may interact with the user in a cooperative, conversational dialogue to resolve the requests. Through dynamic awareness of context, available sources of information, domain knowledge, user behavior and preferences, and external systems and devices, among other things, the voice user interface may provide an integrated environment in which the user can speak conversationally, using natural language, to issue queries, commands, or other requests relating to the navigation services provided in the environment.

US Patent:

8326627, Dec 4, 2012

Filed:

Dec 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/341479

Inventors:

Michael R. Kennewick - Bellevue WA, US
Catherine Cheung - Sammamish WA, US
Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Ari Salomon - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael Tjalve - Bellevue WA, US
Sheetal Guttigoli - Kirkland WA, US
Lynn Armstrong - Woodinville WA, US
Philippe DiChristo - Bellevue WA, US
Bernie Zimmerman - Seattle WA, US
Sam Menaker - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G10L 15/00

US Classification:

704257, 704 9, 704255

Abstract:

The system and method described herein may dynamically generate a recognition grammar associated with a conversational voice user interface in an integrated voice navigation services environment. In particular, in response to receiving a natural language utterance that relates to a navigation context at the voice user interface, a conversational language processor may generate a dynamic recognition grammar that organizes grammar information based on one or more topological domains. For example, the one or more topological domains may be determined based on a current location associated with a navigation device, whereby a speech recognition engine may use the grammar information organized in the dynamic recognition grammar according to the one or more topological domains to generate one or more interpretations associated with the natural language utterance.

US Patent:

8326637, Dec 4, 2012

Filed:

Feb 20, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/389678

Inventors:

Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Chris Weider - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G10L 21/00

US Classification:

704275, 704257, 704 7

Abstract:

A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction.

US Patent:

8370147, Feb 5, 2013

Filed:

Dec 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/341621

Inventors:

Michael R. Kennewick - Bellevue WA, US
Catherine Cheung - Sammamish WA, US
Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Ari Salomon - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael Tjalve - Bellevue WA, US
Sheetal Guttigoli - Kirkland WA, US
Lynn Armstrong - Woodinville WA, US
Philippe DiChristo - Bellevue WA, US
Bernie Zimmerman - Seattle WA, US
Sam Menaker - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G10L 15/00

US Classification:

704257, 704 9, 704270, 7042701

Abstract:

A conversational, natural language voice user interface may provide an integrated voice navigation services environment. The voice user interface may enable a user to make natural language requests relating to various navigation services, and further, may interact with the user in a cooperative, conversational dialogue to resolve the requests. Through dynamic awareness of context, available sources of information, domain knowledge, user behavior and preferences, and external systems and devices, among other things, the voice user interface may provide an integrated environment in which the user can speak conversationally, using natural language, to issue queries, commands, or other requests relating to the navigation services provided in the environment.

US Patent:

8452598, May 28, 2013

Filed:

Dec 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/341572

Inventors:

Michael R. Kennewick - Bellevue WA, US
Catherine Cheung - Sammamish WA, US
Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Ari Salomon - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael Tjalve - Bellevue WA, US
Sheetal Guttigoli - Kirkland WA, US
Lynn Armstrong - Woodinville WA, US
Philippe DiChristo - Bellevue WA, US
Bernie Zimmerman - Seattle WA, US
Sam Menaker - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G10L 15/00

US Classification:

704257, 704 7, 704251, 704270

Abstract:

The system and method described herein may provide advertisements in an integrated voice navigation services environment. In particular, one or more advertisements may be identified based on affinities among a current location associated with a navigation device and shared knowledge and information used to interpret natural language utterances that relate to a navigation context, wherein the one or more advertisements may then be presented via a multi-modal output. As such, the shared knowledge and the information relating to the navigation context may provide the system and method with dynamic awareness relating to context, available information sources, domain knowledge, and user behavior and preferences, among other things, which may be used to deliver targeted and contextually relevant advertisements in the integrated navigation services environment.

US Patent:

8515765, Aug 20, 2013

Filed:

Oct 3, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/251712

Inventors:

Larry Baldwin - Maple Valley WA, US
Tom Freeman - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael Tjalve - Bellevue WA, US
Blane Ebersold - Seattle WA, US
Chris Weider - Everett WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/27
G10L 11/00
G10L 21/00

US Classification:

704275, 704 9, 704270, 7042701

Abstract:

A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and an adaptive response may be generated for the user. Responses may be worded based on the degrees of certainty and to frame an appropriate domain for a subsequent utterance. In one implementation, misrecognitions may be tolerated, and conversational course may be corrected based on subsequent utterances and/or responses.

US Patent:

20130054228, Feb 28, 2013

Filed:

Sep 14, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/619421

Inventors:

LARRY BALDWIN - Maple Valley WA, US
Chris Weider - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/27
G10L 21/00

US Classification:

704 9, 704257, 704E21001

Abstract:

A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction.