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Michael L. Hobbs

Examiner (ID: 4069, Phone: (571)270-3724 , Office: P/1799 )

Most Active Art Unit
1799
Art Unit(s)
1797, 1799, 1775
Total Applications
1319
Issued Applications
862
Pending Applications
92
Abandoned Applications
391

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/637831
Virtual assistant for generating personalized responses within a communication session Jun 28, 2017 Issued
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15/624753
Network-based background expert Jun 15, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 13976191 [patent_doc_number] => 10217457 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-02-26 [patent_title] => Learning from interactions for a spoken dialog system [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/483213 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2017-04-10 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 5 [patent_no_of_words] => 5178 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 106 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15483213 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/483213
Learning from interactions for a spoken dialog system Apr 9, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11959094 [patent_doc_number] => 20170263245 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2017-09-14 [patent_title] => 'CONVERSATION ANALYZING DEVICE, CONVERSATION ANALYZING METHOD, AND PROGRAM' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/444556 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2017-02-28 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 11 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 15366 [patent_no_of_claims] => 11 [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] => 15444556 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/444556
Conversation analyzing device, conversation analyzing method, and program Feb 27, 2017 Issued
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15/445704
Acoustic signal processing system capable of detecting double-talk and method Feb 27, 2017 Issued
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15/440490
Automated program synthesis from natural language for domain specific computing applications Feb 22, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 14151063 [patent_doc_number] => 10255915 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-04-09 [patent_title] => Voice based diagnostic systems and methods [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/434337 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2017-02-16 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 3 [patent_figures_cnt] => 3 [patent_no_of_words] => 4935 [patent_no_of_claims] => 17 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 117 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15434337 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/434337
Voice based diagnostic systems and methods Feb 15, 2017 Issued
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15/424967
Automatic translation of advertisements Feb 5, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11446057 [patent_doc_number] => 20170047078 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2017-02-16 [patent_title] => 'AUDIO CODING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/337927 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2016-10-28 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 11 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 60142 [patent_no_of_claims] => 26 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [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] => 15337927 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/337927
Audio coding method and related apparatus Oct 27, 2016 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11760026 [patent_doc_number] => 20170206895 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2017-07-20 [patent_title] => 'WAKE-ON-VOICE METHOD AND DEVICE' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/335985 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2016-10-27 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 6 [patent_figures_cnt] => 6 [patent_no_of_words] => 6594 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [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] => 15335985 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/335985
Wake-on-voice method and device Oct 26, 2016 Issued
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15/335189
Method and apparatus for facilitating customer intent prediction Oct 25, 2016 Issued
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15/331382
DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM Oct 20, 2016 Abandoned
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15/331311
Speech recognition apparatus and method Oct 20, 2016 Issued
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15/297790
Ambiguity resolving conversational understanding system Oct 18, 2016 Issued
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15/298077
Vehicle ambient audio classification via neural network machine learning Oct 18, 2016 Issued
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15/292871
Centralized method and system for determining voice commands Oct 12, 2016 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11438165 [patent_doc_number] => 20170039186 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2017-02-09 [patent_title] => 'Processing Text with Domain-Specific Spreading Activation Methods' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/280250 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2016-09-29 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 10 [patent_figures_cnt] => 10 [patent_no_of_words] => 16358 [patent_no_of_claims] => 22 [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] => 15280250 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/280250
Processing text with domain-specific spreading activation methods Sep 28, 2016 Issued
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15/275660
Automated message sentiment analysis and aggregation Sep 25, 2016 Issued
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15/227283
Audio decoder for interleaving signals Aug 2, 2016 Issued
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15/200297
Monitoring conversations to identify topics of interest Jun 30, 2016 Issued
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