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Alexander S Thomas

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Most Active Art Unit
1783
Art Unit(s)
1508, 2899, 1794, 1783, 1315, 1772, 1504, 1721, 1773, 1506
Total Applications
3955
Issued Applications
2968
Pending Applications
161
Abandoned Applications
826

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/475260
Systems and methods for teleconferencing virtual environments Sep 13, 2021 Issued
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17/470179
USER DISCUSSION ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION AND CURATION VIA SYSTEM-GENERATED RESPONSES Sep 8, 2021 Pending
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17/459605
Methods and systems for transcription playback with variable emphasis Aug 26, 2021 Issued
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17/445957
CONFIGURING OUTPUT CONTROLS ON A PER-ONLINE IDENTITY AND/OR A PER-ONLINE RESOURCE BASIS Aug 25, 2021 Pending
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17/384576
IDENTIFYING MUSIC ATTRIBUTES BASED ON AUDIO DATA Jul 22, 2021 Pending
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17/381408
Neural-Symbolic Action Transformers for Video Question Answering Jul 20, 2021 Pending
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17/363651
Systems and methods for phonetic-based natural language understanding Jun 29, 2021 Issued
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17/357132
Noise detector for targeted application of noise removal Jun 23, 2021 Issued
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17/355794
Managing audio devices of an information handling system Jun 22, 2021 Issued
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17/346546
Zone grouping Jun 13, 2021 Issued
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17/340740
User self-personalized text-to-speech voice generation Jun 6, 2021 Issued
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17/317702
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING AUDITORY CONTEXT INFORMATION May 10, 2021 Pending
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17/243722
Digital processing systems and methods for digital sound simulation system Apr 28, 2021 Issued
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17/242411
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PERSONALIZED DIALOGUE SYSTEM USING KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENTITY SERVICES Apr 27, 2021 Pending
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17/224850
Adjusting volume levels Apr 6, 2021 Issued
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17/216062
Playback device pairing Mar 28, 2021 Issued
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17/249926
Knowledge Based-Operating System Mar 17, 2021 Abandoned
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17/202150
ADAPTIVE PROCESSING WITH MULTIPLE MEDIA PROCESSING NODES Mar 14, 2021 Pending
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17/197928
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID QUESTION ANSWERING OVER KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Mar 9, 2021 Pending
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17/186830
METHOD AND DEVICE WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Feb 25, 2021 Pending
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