Sean C Colbath

6618726, Sep 9, 2003

Aug 28, 2001

09/942276

Sean C. Colbath - Boston MA
David Stallard - Cambridge MA
Cecile Pham - Norwood MA
Long Nguyen - Medford MA

Genuity Inc. - Burlington MA
Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. - New York NY

G06F 1750

707 6, 707 10, 704231

A voice activated and operated Internet web browser where voiced utterances are digitized and the digitized representation is input to a speech recognition program is disclosed. The speech recognition program determines the most likely set of words from a stored vocabulary making up the utterances. The words are analyzed and searched against a database of topics or micro-domain areas. If a match occurs the words are analyzed by a subprogram associated with the specific topic area and key words are identified and other words discarded. The key words are input to a search engine or the equivalent. The search engine returns information associated with the topic. If no topic match is found a general search on the recognized words is performed. The recognized words are fed to a identification module where key words are extracted that are associated with names of people, organizations, locations, and companies; times; money amounts; percentages; dates; and not-a-name. The extraneous not-a-name words are discarded and the remaining key words are passed to a search engine.

7290207, Oct 30, 2007

Jul 2, 2003

10/610697

Sean Colbath - Cambridge MA, US
Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Francis G. Kubala - Boston MA, US

BBN Technologies Corp. - Cambridge MA

G06F 17/30

715530, 715513, 707102

A system facilitates the searching and retrieval of multimedia data items. The system receives data items from different types of media sources and identifies regions in the data items. The regions include document regions, section regions, and passage regions. Each of the section regions corresponds to one of the document regions and each of the passage regions corresponds to one of the section regions and one of the document regions. The system stores document identifiers that relate to the document regions in separate document records in a document table, section identifiers that relate to the section regions in separate section records in a section table, and passage identifiers that relate to the passage regions in separate passage records in a passage table.

7801838, Sep 21, 2010

Jul 2, 2003

10/610533

Sean Colbath - Cambridge MA, US
Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Francis G. Kubala - Boston MA, US

Ramp Holdings, Inc. - Woburn MA

G06F 15/18
G06F 7/00
G06T 7/00

706 20, 706 59

A system improves recognition results. The system receives multimedia data and recognizes the multimedia data based on training data to generate documents. The system receives user augmentation relating to one of the documents or new documents from a user. The system supplements the training data with the user augmentation or new documents and retrains based on the supplemented training data.

8001066, Aug 16, 2011

Aug 13, 2010

12/806465

Sean Colbath - Cambridge MA, US
Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Francis G. Kubala - Boston MA, US

G06F 15/18
G06F 7/00

706 20, 706 16

A system improves recognition results. The system receives multimedia data and recognizes the multimedia data based on training data to generate documents. The system receives user augmentation relating to one of the documents or new documents from a user. The system supplements the training data with the user augmentation or new documents and retrains based on the supplemented training data.

20040004599, Jan 8, 2004

Jul 2, 2003

10/610534

Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Sean Colbath - Cambridge MA, US
Francis Kubala - Boston MA, US

G09G005/00

345/156000

A system facilitates the browsing of information of interest. The system obtains a transcription of the information and provides the transcription to a user. The system also retrieves the information in its original format and presents the information to the user in the original format. The system visually synchronizes the presentation of the information in the original format with the transcription of the information.

20040163034, Aug 19, 2004

Oct 16, 2003

10/685479

Sean Colbath - Cambridge MA, US
Francis Kubala - Boston MA, US

G06F017/00

715/500000

A system () generates labels for clusters of documents. The system () identifies topics associated with the documents in the clusters and determines whether the topics are associated with approximately half or more of the documents in the clusters. The system () then generates labels for the clusters using the topics that are associated with approximately half or more of the documents in the clusters.

20040199495, Oct 7, 2004

Jul 2, 2003

10/610799

Sean Colbath - Cambridge MA, US
Sean Boisen - Laurel MD, US
Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Susan Nielsen - Annapolis MD, US
Andrew Wilson - Columbia MD, US
Francis Kubala - Boston MA, US

G06F007/00

707/003000

A system provides document browsing by proper name. The system identifies a subset of documents from a set of documents (). The documents in the subset of documents include proper names. The system receives a selection of at least one of the proper names from the subset of documents () and searches the subset of documents to identify one or more of the documents in the subset of documents that include at least one occurrence of the selected proper name(s) (). The system then presents the one or more of the documents as a result of the search ().

63111829, Oct 30, 2001

Nov 17, 1997

8/971606

Sean C. Colbath - Boston MA
David Stallard - Cambridge MA
Cecile Pham - Norwood MA
Long Nguyen - Medford MA

Genuity Inc. - Burlington MA
GTE Service Corporation - Irving TX

G06F 1730

707 6

A voice activated and operated Internet web browser where voiced utterances are digitized and the digitized representation is input to a speech recognition program is disclosed. The speech recognition program determines the most likely set of words from a stored vocabulary making up the utterances. The words are analyzed and searched against a database of topics or micro-domain areas. If a match occurs the words are analyzed by a subprogram associated with the specific topic area and key words are identified and other words discarded. The key words are input to a search engine or the equivalent. The search engine returns information associated with the topic. If no topic match is found a general search on the recognized words is performed. The recognized words are fed to a identification module where key words are extracted that are associated with names of people, organizations, locations, and companies; times; money amounts; percentages; dates; and not-a-name. The extraneous not-a-name words are discarded and the remaining key words are passed to a search engine.