At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At+t Corp.

Lucent Technologies Inc.

At&t Bell Laboratories

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Bampton Technologies LLC

Richard Vandervoort Cox

Mazin G Rahim

Behzad Shahraray

Bernard S Renger

Hong Kook Kim

Behzad Nadji

David Crawford Gibbon

Lee Begeja

Zhu Liu

David Malah

Hossein Eslambolchi

Nambirajan Seshadri

Hisao M Chang

Stephen Michael Marcus

Robert Douglas Sharp

Anthony J Accardi

Allen Louis Gorin

Patrick Guy Haffner

Steven Hart Lewis

Nuggehally Sampath Jayant

David A Kapilow

Harris Drucker

Kadangode K Ramakrishnan

Thomas M Isaacson

Charles Robert Kalmanek, Jr

Thomas Joseph Killian

Peter Onufryk

William Todd Marshall

Alan Edward Kaplan

Lawrence Richard Rabiner

Alexander Gibson Fraser

Bruce Lowell Hanson

Steven Michael Bellovin

Norman Loren Schryer

Juin-Hwey Chen

Roberta Ann Bienfait

Kenneth Mervin Huber

Joseph Henry Condon

Michael M Kaplan

Rainer Martin

Candace Ann Kamm

Benjamin J Stern

Jay Gordon Wilpon

Carl-Erik Wilhelm Sundberg

Yong Zhou

Ronald E Crochiere

Nicola R Chong-White

Reed Thorkildsen

Ranier Martin

A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractors in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to 'delete' each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce the length of the observation sequence, but have been found to provide for sufficient speech recognition based on both single word and 'string' tests of the deletion technique.

Frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including detecting an indication that a first device that has established wireless communications with a second device by way a personal area network. The first device is authenticated based on the indication and according to a predetermined association between the first device and the second device. Information is provided to the second device to facilitate management of operations of the second device by the first device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System for managing media services

A transceiver of a computing device may receive data from a query to provide to a search engine to perform a search. The computing device may negotiate, automatically to overcome a restriction to access a page of a set of top webpages in association with the search, a fee. A processor of the computing device may continue to search information associated with the query on the page using a machine learning function.

Searching restricted content on a network

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving an identifier of a communication device that has established communications with a media processor by way a personal area network. An association between the communication device and the media processor is determined and the communication device is authenticates according to the identifier. Information is provided to the media processor to facilitate management of media services by the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor (MCP) having a controller to detect a communication device roaming into a personal area network, receive a communication identifier from the communication device, authenticate the communication device responsive to validating the communication identifier, and enable the communication device to manage operations of the MCP according to a profile of a subscriber of the communication device responsive to a successful authentication of the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method and system for managing requests in a hold queue and the responses thereto are described. By providing a management system for handling requests in a call queue, a requesting party may be free to perform other tasks while waiting for a response. In addition, the management system may modify request priority independently of a party receiving the request. The method and system may further facilitate the entry of request related information by implementing an information database. The flexibility of a receiving party in responding to a request may also be enhanced through a greater selection of response options. The management system and method may further provide automatic backup and secondary options if a receiving party's first option is unfeasible.

System and method for eliminating hold time in a telecommunications network

A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to 'delete' each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce the length of the observation sequence, but have been found to provide for sufficient speech recognition based on both single word and 'string' tests of the deletion technique.

A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a data base search engine to retrieve a top n pages from the data base, processing of the top n pages through a natural language dialog engine and providing a response based on processing the top n pages.

System and method for providing a natural language interface to a database

A method applies a parametric approach to bandwidth extension but does not require training. The method computes narrowband linear predictive coefficients from a received narrowband speech signal, computes narrowband partial correlation coefficients using recursion, computes Marea coefficients from the partial correlation coefficient, and extracts Marea coefficients using interpolation. Wideband parcors are computed from the Marea coefficients and wideband LPCs are computed from the wideband parcors. The method further comprises synthesizing a wideband signal using the wideband LPCs and a wideband excitation signal, highpass filtering the synthesized wideband signal to produce a highband signal, and combining the highband signal with the original narrowband signal to generate a wideband signal.

System for bandwidth extension of narrow-band speech

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Media Content Processor (MCP) having a controller to detect a communication device roaming into a personal area network, receive a communication identifier from the communication device, authenticate the communication device responsive to validating the communication identifier, and enable the communication device to manage operations of the MCP according to a profile of a subscriber of said communication device responsive to a successful authentication of said communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method includes generating index data from media events that include video content, the event index data being generated by a server, generating locator code data for the event index data, the locator code data being generated by the server, providing the generated event index data and the locator code data from the server to a memory device for storage, searching the generated event index data to identify a segment of the media events in response to receiving a search request, determining segment locator code data from the locator code data based on the identified segment, and transmitting over a network to the end user media device the segment locator code data that corresponds to the identified at least one segment to enable the end user media device to extract an image from a recorded media event for generating an index display using the extracted image.

Index of locally recorded content

Systems and methods herein use an annotation guide to label utterances and speech data with a call type. A system practicing the method embodiment monitors labelers of speech data by presenting via a processor a test utterance to a labeler, receiving input from the labeler that selects a particular call type from a list of call types and determining via the processor if the labeler labeled the test utterance correctly. Based on the determining step, the system revises the annotation guide, retrains the labeler, and/or alters the test utterance.

Systems and methods for monitoring speech data labelers

Systems are disclosed for operating a communications network. The system includes a module to buffer frames of a signal, and a module to determine an access delay. The system also includes a module to compress a portion of the signal based on the access delay by removing a first portion of a frame of the signal and generating an overlap-added segment from a first segment and a second segment of the frame. In another embodiment, the system includes a module to buffer frames of a signal, a module to establish a communication channel with a handset, and a module to determine an access delay. The system also includes a module to compress a portion of the signal based on the access delay by removing a first portion of a frame of the signal and generating an overlap-added segment from a first segment and a second segment of the frame.

Method and apparatus for reducing access delay in discontinuous transmission packet telephony systems

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