Nuance Communications, Inc.

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Apptera Corporation

Steven Clive Ehrlich

Julian Sinai

Leo Chiu

Michael H Cohen

Debajit Ghosh

Peter C Monaco

Tracy D Wax

Madhavan S Thirumalai

Rajesh Ragoobeer

Mark Klenk

Sundeep Gupta

Michael A Prince

Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method requiring loading, via a processor, a meridian tool into an electrical device having an input screen. The method causes, via the processor, the meridian tool to display a human body image on the input screen. The method receives, via the processor, input signals from the input screen to indicate pain points on the human body image and displays, via the processor, a pain level input display on the input screen. The method receives, via the processor, pain level input from the pain level input display screen and causes, via the processor, the electrical device to provide controlling electrical pulses to a meridian acupuncture sleeve, wherein the controlling electrical pulses controls the application of current being applied to electrical pads within the meridian acupuncture sleeve to provide pain relief for the pain points on the human body.

Remote pain management through electrical stimulation of meridian body lines

A system for configuring and implementing changes to a voice application system has a first software component and host node for configuring one or more changes; a second software component and host node for receiving and implementing the configured change or changes; and a data network connecting the host nodes. In a preferred embodiment, a pre-configured change-order resulting from the first software component and host node is deployed after pre-configuration, deployment and execution thereof requiring only one action.

Method for creating and deploying system changes in a voice application system

A computer-implemented graphical design tool allows a developer to graphically author a dialog flow for use in a voice response system and to graphically create an operational link between a hypermedia page and a speech object. The hypermedia page may be a Web site, and the speech object may define a spoken dialog interaction between a person and a machine. Using a drag-and-drop interface, the developer can graphically define a dialog as a sequence of speech objects. The developer can also create a link between a property of any speech object and any field of a Web page, to voice-enable the Web page, or to enable a speech application to access Web site data.

Tool for graphically defining dialog flows and for establishing operational links between speech applications and hypermedia content in an interactive voice response environment

A network comprises a number of speech-enabled sites maintaining a number of voice pages. A central server on the network executes a voice browser which provides users with access to the sites using voice-activated hyperlinks. The server also maintains and brokers information associated with the users based on spoken dialogs between the users and the sites. In response to a user accessing a given ASR site, information about that user is provided by the server for use by that ASR site. The information is used by the ASR site to optimize a spoken dialog between the user and the ASR site by reducing the amount of information the user is required to provide during the dialog. Information about the user can thereby be shared between separate speech enabled sites, in a manner which is transparent to the user, in order to expedite the user's interaction with those sites.

Method and apparatus for optimizing a spoken dialog between a person and a machine

A method and apparatus for creating modifiable and combinable Speech Objects for use in an interactive voice response (IVR) environment. Each Speech Object is for acquiring a particular type of information from a speaker during an interaction between the speaker and a speech recognition mechanism. A Speech Object is an instantiation of a user-extensible class that includes properties, such as prompts and grammars, associated with the corresponding type of interaction. A Speech Object further includes logic for controlling the interaction with the user when executed in a processing system. A Speech Object can be subclassed to add additional properties and functionality to create customized Speech Objects, or such properties can be altered at runtime. Multiple Speech Objects, each for acquiring a particular type of information, can be combined to form a compound Speech Object.

Method and apparatus for creating modifiable and combinable speech objects for acquiring information from a speaker in an interactive voice response system

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Burlingame, CA, United States of America

Steven Clive Ehrlich