At+t Corp.

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Other

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Interactions Corporation

Kenneth H Rosen

Robert Edward Markowitz

Joseph Thomas O'Neil

Randy Glen Goldberg

Peter H Stuntebeck

Pradeep K Bansal

Charles Douglas Blewett

Sanjay Agraharam

Carroll W Creswell

Steven Charles Salimando

Lee Begeja

Steven Hart Lewis

Harvey Spencer Cohen

Joel A Winthrop

David Crawford Gibbon

Behzad Shahraray

Bernard S Renger

Zhu Liu

Ann K Syrdal

Diane Banks

Timothy A Rock

Jeffrey Joseph Farah

David Hilton Shur

Richard Frank Bruno

Richard M Sachs

Howard Paul Katseff

Bethany Scott Robinson

Steven Howard Nurenberg

David A Kapilow

Juergen Schroeter

Ram S Ramamurthy

Ashok K Kuthyar

John Rotondo

Carlos Alberto Perea

Raymond L Bolduc

Barin Geoffry Haskell

Roy Philip Weber

Benjamin J Stern

Mehmet Reha Civanlar

Glenn Lawrence Cash

Robert F Mortenson

Robert Finberg

Andrew C Merritt

Jeffrey J Farah

Peter H Stantebeck

Joseph Thomas O'neil

A method of indexing multimedia content by creating database records that include location data is disclosed. Devices that generate multimedia content also generate location data corresponding to the location of the device when the content is generated. The location data includes geographical coordinates such as latitude and longitude as well as orientation and tilt. Other data may be recorded such as date and time of day, and light exposure. The content and location data are communicated to a Content Index Processor (CIP) that creates a database record from the location data and determines classifications for the database record that can be used by a person that is searching for particular multimedia content.

Method of indexing multimedia content by creating database records that include location data

A system and method is disclosed for processing viewer profiles and program metadata from a number of sources to provide viewing suggestions and recommendations to one or more viewers.

System and method for providing program recommendations through multimedia searching based on established viewer preferences

A network is disclosed that includes a message originator computer and a message recipient computer, for secure electronic mail delivery. In accordance with the invention, the network includes a message delivery server that can distinguish between real and phantom messages. In operation, the message originator computer waits a random time and then transmits a first encrypted phantom message to the message delivery server. This message is to spoof an eavesdropper into believing that there is a steady stream of messages being sent from the originator computer. However, the message delivery server recognizes the message as a phantom message and discards it. When the message originator computer receives a user request to transmit a real message to the recipient computer, it waits a random time and then encrypts and transmits the real message to the message delivery server. The message delivery server recognizes the message as a real message and forwards the real message to the recipient computer. Meanwhile, the message originator computer can continue transmitting encrypted phantom messages to the message delivery server. In this manner, an eavesdropper will be tricked into believing that there is a steady stream of messages being sent from the originator computer.

Network-based service for secure electronic mail delivery on an internet protocol network

A combination and a method are provided. Automatic speech recognition is performed on a received utterance. A meaning of the utterance is determined based, at least in part, on the recognized speech. At least one query is formed based, at least in part, on the determined meaning of the utterance. The at least one query is sent to at least one searching mechanism to search for an address of at least one web page that satisfies the at least one query.

Apparatus and method for forming search engine queries based on spoken utterances

A proxy apparatus and method for streaming media information via at least one network and for building-up a good quality version of the media information are provided. When a user device communicates with the proxy apparatus using a particular bandwidth and requests that media information be provided, the proxy apparatus first determines if a version of the media information encoded for the user device's connection bandwidth has been stored in the proxy apparatus. If a version of the media information encoded for the user device's bandwidth is not available from the proxy apparatus, the proxy apparatus sends a request to a media server for the media information. If the version of the media information has missing packets, the proxy device sends retransmission requests to the media server to obtain the missing packets, thereby building-up a good quality version of the media information.

Proxy apparatus and method for streaming media information and for increasing the quality of stored media information

Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other parameter, selecting an approach from the plurality of approaches for presenting synthesized speech in a listening environment, presenting synthesized speech according to the selected approach and based on natural language input received from a user indicating that an inability to understand the presented synthesized speech, selecting a second approach from the plurality of approaches and presenting subsequent synthesized speech using the second approach.

System and method for configuring voice synthesis based on environment

Method of indexing multimedia content by creating database records the include location data

An apparatus and method for the robust recognition of speech during a call in a noisy environment is presented. Specific background noise models are created to model various background noises which may interfere in the error free recognition of speech. These background noise models are then used to determine which noise characteristics a particular call has. Once a determination has been made of the background noise in any given call, speech recognition is carried out using the appropriate background noise model.

Selective noise/channel/coding models and recognizers for automatic speech recognition

Growing community of inventors

Middletown, NJ, United States of America

Kenneth H Rosen