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Darlene M. Ritchie

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Most Active Art Unit
2628
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2622, 2628, 2699, 3646
Total Applications
585
Issued Applications
505
Pending Applications
1
Abandoned Applications
78

Applications

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17/902505
Injection of user feedback into language model adaptation Sep 1, 2022 Issued
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17/929050
Enabling voice commands and managing voice command settings during collaboration sessions in heterogenous computing platforms Aug 31, 2022 Issued
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17/901209
ALTERNATE NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUT GENERATION Aug 31, 2022 Pending
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17/897195
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Aug 27, 2022 Abandoned
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17/821431
Grouping similar words in a language model Aug 21, 2022 Issued
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17/883329
Audio signal processing method and system for echo mitigation using an echo reference derived from an internal sensor Aug 7, 2022 Issued
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17/866965
COMPLEX NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Jul 17, 2022 Abandoned
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17/865567
Systems and methods for managing multiple voice assistant services based on voice input Jul 14, 2022 Issued
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17/865152
Semantic consistency of explanations in explainable artificial intelligence applications Jul 13, 2022 Issued
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17/811650
History-based ASR mistake corrections Jul 10, 2022 Issued
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17/859791
Colorless generation of elevation perceptual cues using all-pass filter networks Jul 6, 2022 Issued
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17/855554
Speech dialog system and recipirocity enforced neural relative transfer function estimator Jun 29, 2022 Issued
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17/810303
Real-time low-complexity stereo speech enhancement with spatial cue preservation Jun 29, 2022 Issued
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17/853013
Natural language understanding Jun 28, 2022 Issued
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17/847266
Audible transaction verification with an assistance device Jun 22, 2022 Issued
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17/846864
Method and apparatus for dialogue understandability assessment Jun 21, 2022 Issued
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17/808214
Natural language processing machine learning frameworks trained using multi-task training routines Jun 21, 2022 Issued
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17/842521
Speech Recognition Accuracy with Natural-Language Understanding based Meta-Speech Systems for Assistant Systems Jun 15, 2022 Abandoned
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17/842577
Dynamic and/or context-specific hot words to invoke automated assistant Jun 15, 2022 Issued
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17/836591
Domain adaptation of machine learning models for classification Jun 8, 2022 Issued
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