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David R. Dunn

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 15047, Phone: (571)272-6670 , Office: P/3636 )

Most Active Art Unit
3616
Art Unit(s)
3616, 3636, 3611
Total Applications
995
Issued Applications
566
Pending Applications
149
Abandoned Applications
284

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/384764
Detecting near matches to a hotword or phrase Oct 26, 2023 Issued
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18/491271
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED AUDIO DATA TRANSMISSION AND DIGITAL AUDIO MASHUP AUTOMATION Oct 19, 2023 Abandoned
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18/491271
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED AUDIO DATA TRANSMISSION AND DIGITAL AUDIO MASHUP AUTOMATION Oct 18, 2023 Abandoned
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18/489217
CODEC NEGOTIATION AND SWITCHING METHOD Oct 17, 2023 Pending
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18/447883
SOUND SYNTHESIZER FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Aug 9, 2023 Pending
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18/314408
SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH ENCODER-DECODER MODEL AND CORRESPONDING METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING SPEECH CONTAINING DESIRED SPEAKER IDENTITY AND EMOTIONAL STYLE May 8, 2023 Abandoned
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18/143800
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN URGENT EVENT AND NOTIFYING A USER May 4, 2023 Abandoned
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18/081382
DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND DIALOGUE PROCESSING METHOD Dec 13, 2022 Pending
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18/065758
Automatic extraction of semantically similar question topics Dec 13, 2022 Issued
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18/081580
Arbitration between automated assistant devices based on interaction cues Dec 13, 2022 Issued
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18/062857
Testing cascaded deep learning pipelines comprising a speech-to-text model and a text intent classifier Dec 6, 2022 Issued
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17/984274
METHOD FOR ECHO CANCELLATION, ECHO CANCELLATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT Nov 9, 2022 Abandoned
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17/962917
USER-CENTRIC CONVERSION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE RESPONSES TO POTENTIAL MULTIPLE CHOICE STATEMENTS Oct 9, 2022 Pending
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17/837240
Enhanced Natural Language Processing Search Engine for Media Content Jun 9, 2022 Abandoned
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18/548791
CONTEXT AWARE SOUNDSCAPE CONTROL Apr 27, 2022 Pending
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17/656201
ALWAYS-ON LOCAL ACTION CONTROLLER FOR LOW POWER, BATTERY-OPERATED AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENT DEVICES Mar 22, 2022 Pending
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17/675947
ALWAYS-ON WAKE ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PATTERN DETECTION (WOMPD) FROM A SENSOR FUSION CIRCUITRY Feb 17, 2022 Pending
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18/557336
ACOUSTIC DEVICE, ACOUSTIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Apr 29, 2021 Pending
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17/798857
VOICE CONVERSION DEVICE, VOICE CONVERSION METHOD, AND VOICE CONVERSION PROGRAM Feb 4, 2021 Abandoned
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18/025876
VOICE ACTIVATION DETECTING METHOD OF EARPHONES, EARPHONES AND STORAGE MEDIUM Oct 28, 2020 Pending
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