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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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17/187093
Natural query completion for a real-time morphing interface Feb 25, 2021 Issued
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18/248528
Speech processing method, computer storage medium, and electronic device Feb 21, 2021 Issued
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17/181301
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Feb 21, 2021 Abandoned
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17/164794
Audio processing method for performing audio pass-through and related apparatus Jan 31, 2021 Issued
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18/263494
DETERMINATION OF SPATIAL AUDIO PARAMETER ENCODING AND ASSOCIATED DECODING Jan 28, 2021 Pending
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17/162040
Structured graph-to-text generation with two step fine-tuning Jan 28, 2021 Issued
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17/161327
Systems and methods for scientific contribution summarization Jan 27, 2021 Issued
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17/159505
Audio processing device and audio processing method Jan 26, 2021 Issued
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17/157963
Dual learning bridge between text and knowledge graph Jan 24, 2021 Issued
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17/758424
RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM Jan 6, 2021 Abandoned
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17/141846
Combining multiple messages from a message queue in order to process for emoji responses Jan 4, 2021 Issued
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17/136186
Context aware personalization Dec 28, 2020 Issued
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17/112285
Learned evaluation model for grading quality of natural language generation outputs Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/109994
Audio mistranscription mitigation Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/107357
Utilizing natural language processing similarity matching to determine whether a problem requires quantum computing or classical computing Nov 29, 2020 Issued
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17/105332
Systems and methods for analyzing and monitoring lung function using voice and breath sound samples for respiratory care Nov 24, 2020 Issued
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16/950462
Aircraft speech recognition systems and methods Nov 16, 2020 Issued
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18/032787
Sound signal refining method, sound signal decoding method, apparatus thereof, program, and storage medium Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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17/061628
Extracting fine grain labels from medical imaging reports Oct 1, 2020 Issued
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18/025916
Detecting apparatus, training apparatus, detecting method, training method, detecting program, and training program Sep 17, 2020 Issued
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