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Melissa J. Koval

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 16967, Phone: (571)272-2121 , Office: P/2866 )

Most Active Art Unit
2851
Art Unit(s)
2862, 2851, 6216, OPQA, 2858, 2866
Total Applications
894
Issued Applications
727
Pending Applications
41
Abandoned Applications
124

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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13/627027
Web-based audio transcription tool Sep 25, 2012 Issued
Array ( [id] => 9076972 [patent_doc_number] => 08554560 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2013-10-08 [patent_title] => 'Voice activity detection' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/602390 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2012-09-04 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 4 [patent_no_of_words] => 6844 [patent_no_of_claims] => 15 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 225 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13602390 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/602390
Voice activity detection Sep 3, 2012 Issued
Array ( [id] => 8945689 [patent_doc_number] => 08498876 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2013-07-30 [patent_title] => 'Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/552598 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2012-07-18 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 7 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 6496 [patent_no_of_claims] => 11 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 181 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13552598 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/552598
Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks Jul 17, 2012 Issued
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13/552590
Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks Jul 17, 2012 Issued
Array ( [id] => 8222450 [patent_doc_number] => 20120136653 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2012-05-31 [patent_title] => 'TRANSFORM CODER AND TRANSFORM CODING METHOD' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/367840 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2012-02-07 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 26 [patent_figures_cnt] => 26 [patent_no_of_words] => 16699 [patent_no_of_claims] => 10 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13367840 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/367840
Transform coder and transform coding method Feb 6, 2012 Issued
Array ( [id] => 8130103 [patent_doc_number] => 20120089592 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2012-04-12 [patent_title] => 'Automatic Text Skimming Using Lexical Chains' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/327887 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2011-12-16 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 26 [patent_figures_cnt] => 26 [patent_no_of_words] => 17784 [patent_no_of_claims] => 22 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 4 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] => publications/A1/0089/20120089592.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13327887 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/327887
Automatic text skimming using lexical chains Dec 15, 2011 Issued
Array ( [id] => 8715714 [patent_doc_number] => 08401862 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2013-03-19 [patent_title] => 'Audio encoder, method for providing output signal, bandwidth extension decoder, and method for providing bandwidth extended audio signal' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/158547 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2011-06-13 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 19 [patent_figures_cnt] => 22 [patent_no_of_words] => 14124 [patent_no_of_claims] => 8 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 6 [patent_words_short_claim] => 279 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13158547 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/158547
Audio encoder, method for providing output signal, bandwidth extension decoder, and method for providing bandwidth extended audio signal Jun 12, 2011 Issued
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13/107687
Apparatus and method for generating a synthesis audio signal using a patching control signal May 12, 2011 Issued
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12/926281
Speech recognition dictionary creating support device, computer readable medium storing processing program, and processing method Nov 4, 2010 Issued
Array ( [id] => 8580325 [patent_doc_number] => 08346554 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2013-01-01 [patent_title] => 'Speech recognition using channel verification' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 12/882292 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2010-09-15 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 1 [patent_figures_cnt] => 1 [patent_no_of_words] => 5287 [patent_no_of_claims] => 18 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 178 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 12882292 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
12/882292
Speech recognition using channel verification Sep 14, 2010 Issued
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12/923171
Apparatus and method of encoding audio data and apparatus and method of decoding encoded audio data Sep 6, 2010 Issued
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12/872482
Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks Aug 30, 2010 Issued
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12/923012
Method of putting identification codes in a document Aug 29, 2010 Abandoned
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12/857008
Method and apparatus for extracting prosodic feature of speech signal Aug 15, 2010 Issued
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12/837065
Key Talk Jul 14, 2010 Abandoned
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12/538944
Subtitle generation and retrieval combining document processing with voice processing Aug 10, 2009 Issued
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12/510945
Audio Recognition System Jul 27, 2009 Abandoned
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12/509633
Phrase-based statistical machine translation as a generalized traveling salesman problem Jul 26, 2009 Issued
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12/506719
Viterbi decoder and speech recognition method using same using non-linear filter for observation probabilities Jul 20, 2009 Issued
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12/460428
Speech post-processing using MDCT coefficients Jul 16, 2009 Issued
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