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Thomas C. Lee

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 8042, Phone: (571)272-3667 , Office: P/2115 )

Most Active Art Unit
2302
Art Unit(s)
2182, 2302, 2307, 2115, 2317, 2782, 2185
Total Applications
699
Issued Applications
429
Pending Applications
25
Abandoned Applications
248

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/810279
Systems and methods for identifying content corresponding to a language spoken in a household Mar 4, 2020 Issued
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16/809443
Training data generating method for training filled pause detecting model and device therefor Mar 3, 2020 Issued
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16/803834
Dynamic translation Feb 26, 2020 Issued
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17/626030
Interaction device Feb 24, 2020 Issued
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16/799623
Denoising a signal Feb 23, 2020 Issued
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17/429617
Prediction device, prediction method, and program Jan 29, 2020 Issued
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16/777360
Automatically generating speech markup language tags for text Jan 29, 2020 Issued
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17/429169
Language model score calculation apparatus, language model generation apparatus, methods therefor, program, and recording medium Jan 26, 2020 Issued
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17/617840
Sound signal receiving and decoding method, sound signal decoding method, sound signal receiving side apparatus, decoding apparatus, program and storage medium Dec 26, 2019 Issued
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17/421011
Method, device, and program for customizing and activating a personal virtual assistant system for motor vehicles Dec 26, 2019 Issued
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16/725702
Voice wake-up processing method, apparatus and storage medium Dec 22, 2019 Issued
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17/785977
ABSTRACT LEARNING METHOD, ABSTRACT LEARNING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM Dec 17, 2019 Abandoned
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16/719206
Recommending multimedia based on user utterances Dec 17, 2019 Issued
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17/756995
Training speech synthesis to generate distinct speech sounds Dec 12, 2019 Issued
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16/705390
Systems and methods for comparing legal clauses Dec 5, 2019 Issued
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16/698536
Method and system for processing speech signal Nov 26, 2019 Issued
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16/695555
Distinguishing user speech from background speech in speech-dense environments Nov 25, 2019 Issued
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16/693447
Feeling estimation device, feeling estimation method, and storage medium Nov 24, 2019 Issued
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16/686544
Systems and methods for providing a virtual assistant Nov 17, 2019 Issued
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16/682492
Device and system for accessing multiple virtual assistant services Nov 12, 2019 Issued
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