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Michael W. Ball

Examiner (ID: 12984)

Most Active Art Unit
1301
Art Unit(s)
1301, 1733, 1801
Total Applications
661
Issued Applications
537
Pending Applications
15
Abandoned Applications
109

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/304514
End-to-end speech diarization via iterative speaker embedding Jun 21, 2021 Issued
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18/008446
Frame loss concealment for a low-frequency effects channel Jun 9, 2021 Issued
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17/343051
Using speech mannerisms to validate an integrity of a conference participant Jun 8, 2021 Issued
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17/338916
Accessing a knowledge database Jun 3, 2021 Issued
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17/315704
Voice command recognition system May 9, 2021 Issued
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18/556346
ROBUST AUTHENTICATION OF DIGITAL AUDIO May 7, 2021 Pending
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17/313586
Semi-structured content aware bi-directional transformer May 5, 2021 Issued
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17/240425
COMPENSATION FOR FACE COVERINGS IN CAPTURED AUDIO Apr 25, 2021 Abandoned
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17/302118
System for determining document portions that correspond to queries Apr 22, 2021 Issued
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17/998866
Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding Apr 14, 2021 Issued
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17/229637
Semantic parsing of utterance using contractive paraphrasing Apr 12, 2021 Issued
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17/228538
Methods and techniques to identify suspicious activity based on ultrasonic signatures Apr 11, 2021 Issued
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17/907600
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Mar 29, 2021 Abandoned
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17/215383
Machine learning model updating Mar 28, 2021 Issued
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17/215024
VERIFYING AND CORRECTING TEXT PRESENTED IN COMPUTER BASED AUDIOVISUAL PRESENTATIONS Mar 28, 2021 Abandoned
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17/212957
Detecting the tone of text Mar 24, 2021 Issued
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17/209249
METHOD OF DETECTING CHANGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Mar 22, 2021 Abandoned
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17/200384
Method and system for determining sentiment of natural language text content Mar 11, 2021 Issued
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17/197684
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA AUGMENTATION OF FEATURE-BASED VOICE DATA Mar 9, 2021 Abandoned
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17/191538
Authentication of intended speech as part of an enrollment process Mar 2, 2021 Issued
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