Robert P Fleming

US Patent:

8621194, Dec 31, 2013

Filed:

Aug 31, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/872733

Inventors:

James A. Duda - Waltham MA, US
Andre M. Hassan - Windham NH, US
Nathan J. Dohm - Natick MA, US
Robert Swope Fleming - Arlington MA, US
Michael Joseph Schaffstein - Waltham MA, US

Assignee:

Conexant Systems, Inc. - Irvine CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/177

US Classification:

713 2, 711103, 714 611

Abstract:

A system for booting a processor from NAND flash, comprising a NAND agnostic boot controller and a NAND flash device, wherein the NAND flash device further comprises a boot wrapper storing boot code in a predetermined format.

US Patent:

20030046395, Mar 6, 2003

Filed:

Dec 11, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/021815

Inventors:

Robert Fleming - Concord MA, US
Thomas Moreau - Candia NH, US

International Classification:

G06F015/173

US Classification:

709/226000

Abstract:

The invention includes a system and a method for efficiently bounding the life of an event subscription to the availability of an object in a common object server environment. In particular, the invention provides a method for defining a quality of service for a subscription that mandates an automatic cancellation of the subscription when the object subscriber becomes unreachable. In one embodiment this quality of service may be specified as persistent or transient. The administrator can specify administrative limits associated with each or all subscription that determine the frequency with which checks are made. When a subscription with a transient quality of service is created, the event system periodically determines whether the object is reachable or not. If the object is reachable then it does nothing, but if the object is unreachable it may cancel the subscription.

US Patent:

20140012575, Jan 9, 2014

Filed:

Jul 9, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/544383

Inventors:

Raghu Vemula - Wilmington MA, US
Robert Fleming - Lynnfield MA, US

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

International Classification:

G10L 15/18
G10L 15/02

US Classification:

704239, 704249, 704E15004, 704E15019

Abstract:

In some embodiments, the recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential significant errors. In some embodiments, the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether a meaning of any of the alternative recognition results differs from a meaning of the top recognition result in a manner that is significant for a domain, such as the medical domain. In some embodiments, words and/or phrases that may be confused by an ASR system may be determined and associated in sets of words and/or phrases. Words and/or phrases that may be determined include those that change a meaning of a phrase or sentence when included in the phrase/sentence.

US Patent:

20140012579, Jan 9, 2014

Filed:

Jul 9, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/544215

Inventors:

Raghu Vemula - Wilmington MA, US
Robert Fleming - Lynnfield MA, US

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

International Classification:

G10L 15/18
G10L 15/00

US Classification:

704257, 704231, 704E15018, 704E15001

Abstract:

In some embodiments, recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential errors. In some embodiments, the indications of potential errors may include discrepancies between recognition results that are meaningful for a domain, such as medically-meaningful discrepancies. The evaluation of the recognition results may be carried out using any suitable criteria, including one or more criteria that differ from criteria used by an ASR system in determining the top recognition result and the alternative recognition results from the speech input. In some embodiments, a recognition result may additionally or alternatively be processed to determine whether the recognition result includes a word or phrase that is unlikely to appear in a domain to which speech input relates.

US Patent:

20140012580, Jan 9, 2014

Filed:

Jul 9, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/544279

Inventors:

Raghu Vemula - Wilmington MA, US
Robert Fleming - Lynnfield MA, US

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

International Classification:

G10L 15/18

US Classification:

704257, 704E15018

Abstract:

In some embodiments, the recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential significant errors. In some embodiments, the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether a meaning of any of the alternative recognition results differs from a meaning of the top recognition result in a manner that is significant for the domain. In some embodiments, one or more of the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether the result(s) include one or more words or phrases that, when included in a result, would change a meaning of the result in a manner that would be significant for the domain.

US Patent:

20140012581, Jan 9, 2014

Filed:

Jul 9, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/544331

Inventors:

Raghu Vemula - Wilmington MA, US
Robert Fleming - Lynnfield MA, US

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

International Classification:

G10L 15/18

US Classification:

704257, 704E15018

Abstract:

In some embodiments, the recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential significant errors. In some embodiments, the recognition results may be evaluated using one or more sets of words and/or phrases, such as pairs of words/phrases that may include words/phrases that are acoustically similar to one another and/or that, when included in a result, would change a meaning of the result in a manner that would be significant for a domain. The recognition results may be evaluated using the set(s) of words/phrases to determine, when the top result includes a word/phrase from a set of words/phrases, whether any of the alternative recognition results includes any of the other, corresponding words/phrases from the set.

US Patent:

20140012582, Jan 9, 2014

Filed:

Jul 9, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/544445

Inventors:

Raghu Vemula - Wilmington MA, US
Robert Fleming - Lynnfield MA, US

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

International Classification:

G10L 15/18

US Classification:

704257, 704E15001

Abstract:

In some embodiments, a recognition result produced by a speech processing system based on an analysis of a speech input is evaluated for indications of potential errors. In some embodiments, sets of words/phrases that may be acoustically similar or otherwise confusable, the misrecognition of which can be significant in the domain, may be used together with a language model to evaluate a recognition result to determine whether the recognition result includes such an indication. In some embodiments, a word/phrase of a set that appears in the result is iteratively replaced with each of the other words/phrases of the set. The result of the replacement may be evaluated using a language model to determine a likelihood of the newly-created string of words appearing in a language and/or domain. The likelihood may then be evaluated to determine whether the result of the replacement is sufficiently likely for an alert to be triggered.

US Patent:

44278756, Jan 24, 1984

Filed:

Jun 26, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/277826

Inventors:

Robert J. Fleming - Milford MA

International Classification:

F24H 306
F22D 128
F24D 1304

US Classification:

219341

Abstract:

An electric steam radiator unit for heating residential and commercial spaces comprises an elongated vertical stack having a cylindrical central bore. The top of the stack communicates with one end of a generally horizontal heat exchange tube slightly downwardly inclined from the stack and having a plurality of heat radiating fins. A downwardly inclined condensate return tube connects the other end of the heat exchange tube to the bottom portion of the stack. The heat exchange tube, stack and condensate tube are joined in series to form a closed fluid circuit. An elongated cylindrical electric heating element disposed concentrically in the central bore extends the length of the stack to define a thin annular vaporization space. A small quantity of vaporizable liquid fills the lower part of the space and is converted to a vapor by action of the heating element. The vapor is superheated as it rises through the vaporization space to the heat exchange tube where it condenses to give up heat to the space being heated.