Stanley M Boykin

US Patent:

7617188, Nov 10, 2009

Filed:

Mar 24, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/087703

Inventors:

Qian Hu - Lexington MA, US
Fred J. Goodman - Montgomery Village MD, US
Stanley M. Boykin - Stoughton MA, US
Randall K. Fish - Dillsburg PA, US
Warren R. Greiff - Chelmsford MA, US

Assignee:

The MITRE Corporation - McLean VA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 3, 7071041

Abstract:

Audio hot spotting is accomplished by specifying query criterion to include a non-lexical audio cue. The non-lexical audio cue can be, e. g. , speech rate, laughter, applause, vocal effort, speaker change or any combination thereof. The query criterion is retrieved from an audio portion of a file. A segment of the file containing the query criterion can be provided to a user. The duration of the provided segment can be specified by the user along with the files to be searched. A list of detections of the query criterion within the file can also be provided to the user. Searches can be refined by the query criterion additionally including a lexical audio-cue. A keyword index of topic terms contained in the file can also be provided to the user.

US Patent:

7953751, May 31, 2011

Filed:

Oct 12, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/577242

Inventors:

Qian Hu - Lexington MA, US
Fred J. Goodman - Montgomery Village MD, US
Stanley M. Boykin - Stoughton MA, US
Randall K. Fish - Dillsburg PA, US
Warren R. Greiff - Chelmsford MA, US

Assignee:

The Mitre Corporation - McLean VA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707769, 707913, 707E17009

Abstract:

Audio hot spotting is accomplished by specifying query criterion to include a non-lexical audio cue. The non-lexical audio cue can be, e. g. , speech rate, laughter, applause, vocal effort, speaker change or any combination thereof. The query criterion is retrieved from an audio portion of a file. A segment of the file containing the query criterion can be provided to a user. The duration of the provided segment can be specified by the user along with the files to be searched. A list of detections of the query criterion within the file can also be provided to the user. Searches can be refined by the query criterion additionally including a lexical audio-cue. A keyword index of topic terms contained in the file can also be provided to the user.

US Patent:

20060047701, Mar 2, 2006

Filed:

Aug 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/928372

Inventors:

Mark Maybury - Chelmsford MA, US
Warren Greiff - Chelmsford MA, US
Stanley Boykin - Randolph MA, US
Chadwick McHenry - McLean VA, US
Lisa Ferro - New Boston NH, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707104100

Abstract:

A system and method are provided that use explicitly and implicitly derived models of user information needs and content and presentation preferences together with relevancy feedback to expand a user's original query to the most related terms in a corpus and/or to allow the user to provide interactive feedback to enhance the relevance of selected news stories and display profile of the selected news stories. By personalizing both the selection of stories and the form in which they are delivered, users are provided with tailored broadcast news.

US Patent:

20150178487, Jun 25, 2015

Filed:

Dec 20, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/136664

Inventors:

- McLean VA, US
Stelios Melachrinoudis - Framingham MA, US
Joshua Kraunelis - Lowell MA, US
Stanley Boykin - Stoughton MA, US
Matthew Coarr - Auberndale MA, US

Assignee:

The MITRE Corporation - McLean VA

International Classification:

G06F 21/32
G10L 25/48

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for authentication of users of electronic devices by voice biometrics. An embodiment operates by comparing a power spectrum and/or an amplitude spectrum within a frequency range of an audio signal to a criterion, and determining that the audio signal is one of a live audio signal or a playback audio signal based on the comparison.