公开(公告)号：US06727916B1

公开(公告)日：2004-04-27

申请号：US09746702

申请日：2000-12-21

申请人： Barbara Ballard

发明人： Barbara Ballard

IPC分类号： G06K1500

CPC分类号： G06Q10/107

摘要： A method and system for assisting a user to engage in a microbrowser-based interactive chat session. The microbrowser displays a conversation choice card comprising (i) a history-of-communications and (ii) a number of choice-items related to the chat session. The use of a conversation choice-card conveniently reduces the number of keystrokes that a user might otherwise need to carry out various functions related to the chat session. It also may cut the number of keystrokes required to perform interactive chat functions.

摘要翻译： 一种用于辅助用户参与基于微型浏览器的交互式聊天会话的方法和系统。 微型浏览器显示会话选择卡，其包括（i）通信历史和（ii）与聊天会话相关的多个选择项。 使用对话选择卡方便地减少用户可能需要执行与聊天会话相关的各种功能的按键次数。 它也可以减少执行交互式聊天功能所需的按键次数。

公开(公告)号：US06346954B1

公开(公告)日：2002-02-12

申请号：US09218131

申请日：1998-12-21

申请人： Simon Chu ,  Gayle Steinbugler ,  Barbara Ballard

发明人： Simon Chu ,  Gayle Steinbugler ,  Barbara Ballard

IPC分类号： G06F300

CPC分类号： G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0629 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F2206/1008 ,  Y10S715/965

摘要： A method and system are disclosed for managing a plurality of data storage systems. A plurality of graphically designatable data storage systems are displayed within a computer system display. A subset of the plurality of graphically designatable data storage systems are selected to be utilized in a data storage array. A data distribution mode for the data array is designated. An iconic representation of selected data storage systems of the data storage array is automatically graphically displayed in response to the selected subset of data storage systems and the designated data distribution mode such that complete data storage arrays may be graphically illustrated for management purposes.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于管理多个数据存储系统的方法和系统。 多个图形可设计的数据存储系统显示在计算机系统显示器内。 选择多个图形可设计的数据存储系统的子集以在数据存储阵列中使用。 指定数据阵列的数据分配模式。 响应于所选择的数据存储系统的子集和指定的数据分配模式自动地图形地显示数据存储阵列的所选数据存储系统的标志性表示，以便为了管理目的可以图形地示出完整的数据存储阵列。

公开(公告)号：US06324499B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-27

申请号：US09264122

申请日：1999-03-08

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara Ballard

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara Ballard

IPC分类号： G10L1526

CPC分类号： G10L15/26 ,  G10L2015/226

摘要： A method and system for responding to randomly occurring noise in a voice recognition application program. The system receives an audio signal representative of sound in an audio environment and processes the audio signal to identify certain non-speech sounds. A pre-defined action is performed in response to the non-speech sound which has been identified. The pre-defined action is selected from the group consisting of disabling a microphone source of the audio signal, suspending further processing of the audio signal by the speech recognition system, executing a user-defined macro, and ignoring the sound. The system may perform additional steps including recording a sound which is to be identified as a non-speech sound and assigning one of the pre-defined actions to be performed in response when the non-speech sound has been identified.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在语音识别应用程序中响应随机发生的噪声的方法和系统。 系统接收代表音频环境中的声音的音频信号，并且处理音频信号以识别某些非语音声音。 响应于已经识别的非语音声音执行预定义的动作。 预定义的动作选自禁用音频信号的麦克风源，暂停通过语音识别系统对音频信号的进一步处理，执行用户定义的宏，并忽略声音。 该系统可以执行附加步骤，包括记录要被识别为非语音的声音，并且在已经识别出非语音声音时分配响应中要执行的预定义动作之一。

公开(公告)号：US06314397B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-06

申请号：US09290858

申请日：1999-04-13

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry Ortega ,  Barbara Ballard

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry Ortega ,  Barbara Ballard

IPC分类号： G10L1526

CPC分类号： G06F3/16 ,  G06F17/273 ,  G10L15/26

摘要： In a computer system having a word processing application adapted for speech recognition, a method and system to propagate corrections in dictated text. in response to a first user command, a first error word is selected to be corrected from a word processing file containing dictated text. The error word is replaced by a correct word selected by a user. The system subsequently searches the dictated text contained in the document fie in response to another user command to locate a second or subsequent error word that is a close acoustic match to the first error word. The second or subsequent error word may then be replaced using a word selected from an alternate word list.

摘要翻译： 在具有适用于语音识别的文字处理应用的计算机系统中，一种在指定文本中传播校正的方法和系统。 响应于第一用户命令，从包含规定文本的文字处理文件中选择要纠正的第一错误字。 错误字由用户选择的正确字代替。 系统随后响应于另一用户命令搜索包含在文档fie中的规定文本，以定位与第一错误字紧密声匹配的第二或后续错误字。 然后可以使用从替代单词列表中选择的单词替换第二或后续错误字。

公开(公告)号：US06980642B1

公开(公告)日：2005-12-27

申请号：US09702486

申请日：2000-10-31

申请人： Yat-Sang Hung ,  Barbara Ballard ,  Tony Tsoi

发明人： Yat-Sang Hung ,  Barbara Ballard ,  Tony Tsoi

IPC分类号： H04M1/00 ,  H04M1/2745 ,  H04M3/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/274566 ,  H04M1/274558 ,  H04M2001/274541

摘要： A method and apparatus for providing abbreviated dialing functionality to a user's subscriber terminal or telephone by automatically adding a designated string of digits to any abbreviated extension dialed by the user. The subscriber terminal may include a processor, a memory (e.g., ROM, flash memory, non-volatile memory, hard disk, etc.), a “Send” button or the like, one or more sequences of digits stored in the memory, and a translation routine executable by the processor. The translation routine is executed when the processor determines that the digits entered by the user represent an abbreviated extension, for example, when a user dials fewer than seven digits and presses the “Send” button on a subscriber terminal. When executed, the translation routine automatically prepends or adds one of the stored sequences of digits to the abbreviated extension entered by the user, and then the subscriber terminal dials the resulting composite telephone number. Where multiple sequences of digits are stored in the memory, the user may have preselected which sequence to use, or, alternatively, the subscriber terminal may include logic to determine which sequence to use. For example, the subscriber terminal may use the length of the abbreviated extension as a basis to determine which sequence to use.

摘要翻译： 一种用于通过自动地将指定的数字字符串添加到用户拨打的任何缩写扩展来向用户的用户终端或电话机提供缩位拨号功能的方法和装置。 用户终端可以包括处理器，存储器（例如，ROM，闪存，非易失性存储器，硬盘等），“发送”按钮等，存储在存储器中的一个或多个数字序列， 以及由处理器执行的翻译程序。 当处理器确定用户输入的数字表示缩短的分机时，例如当用户拨打少于七位数字并按下用户终端上的“发送”按钮时，执行翻译程序。 当执行时，翻译程序自动将存储的数字序列中的一个添加到由用户输入的缩写扩展中，然后用户终端拨打所得到的复合电话号码。 在存储器中存储多个数字序列的情况下，用户可以预先选择要使用的序列，或者替代地，订户终端可以包括用于确定要使用哪个序列的逻辑。 例如，用户终端可以使用缩写扩展名的长度作为基础来确定要使用的序列。

公开(公告)号：US06577999B1

公开(公告)日：2003-06-10

申请号：US09264255

申请日：1999-03-08

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara Ballard

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara Ballard

IPC分类号： G10L2100

CPC分类号： G10L15/187 ,  G10L2015/0631

摘要： In a computer speech dictation system, a method for automatically managing a plurality of acoustic models. The method is intended to ensure that only high reliability acoustic models which accurately reflect word pronunciations for a given user are retained. The method is accomplished by assigning a base quality metric value for each of the acoustic models maintained by a speech recognition application. The quality metric is incremented or decremented upon the occurrence of certain events relevant to the reliablity of the acoustic model. Acoustic model are discarded when the quality metric value falls below a threshold value.

摘要翻译： 在计算机语音听写系统中，一种用于自动管理多个声学模型的方法。 该方法旨在确保仅保留准确反映给定用户的发音的高可靠性声学模型。 该方法通过为由语音识别应用维护的每个声学模型分配基本质量度量值来实现。 在与声学模型的可靠性相关的某些事件的发生时，质量度量被递增或递减。 当质量度量值低于阈值时，声学模型被丢弃。

公开(公告)号：US06253177B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-26

申请号：US09265229

申请日：1999-03-08

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara Ballard

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara Ballard

IPC分类号： G10L1526

CPC分类号： G06F3/16 ,  G10L15/19 ,  G10L15/22

摘要： In a computer speech dictation system, a method and system for automatically determining whether to update a language model based upon user amendments to text in a dictated word processing document. The method includes the steps of monitoring a user's text-amending input to an application program for amending the dictated text and subsequently performing processing responsive to the monitoring step to determine whether the text-amending input corrects a misrecognized word in the dictated text. If the test amending input corrects a misrecognized word, the system updates a language model based upon the text which has been amended.

摘要翻译： 在计算机语音听写系统中，一种方法和系统，用于根据用户对规定的文字处理文档中的文本修改来自动确定是否更新语言模型。 该方法包括以下步骤：监视用户对应用程序的文本修改输入以修改指定的文本，并随后响应于监视步骤执行处理，以确定文本修改输入是否校正了所述规定文本中的错误识别的单词。 如果测试修改输入更正错误识别的单词，系统会根据已修改的文本更新语言模型。