Scott M Shepard

US Patent:

7290207, Oct 30, 2007

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610697

Inventors:

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

Assignee:

BBN Technologies Corp. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

715530, 715513, 707102

Abstract:

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.

US Patent:

7801838, Sep 21, 2010

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610533

Inventors:

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

Assignee:

Ramp Holdings, Inc. - Woburn MA

International Classification:

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

US Classification:

706 20, 706 59

Abstract:

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.

US Patent:

8001066, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Aug 13, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/806465

Inventors:

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

International Classification:

G06F 15/18
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

706 20, 706 16

Abstract:

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.

US Patent:

20040004599, Jan 8, 2004

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610534

Inventors:

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

International Classification:

G09G005/00

US Classification:

345/156000

Abstract:

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.

US Patent:

20040006628, Jan 8, 2004

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610560

Inventors:

Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Daniel Kiecza - Cambridge MA, US
Francis Kubala - Boston MA, US
Amit Srivastava - Waltham MA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/228000

Abstract:

A system alerts a user of detection of an item of interest in real time. The system receives a user profile that relates to the item of interest. The system obtains real time data corresponding to information created in multiple media formats. The system determines the relevance of the real time data to the item of interest based on the user profile and alerts the user when the real time data is determined to be relevant.

US Patent:

20040006748, Jan 8, 2004

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610574

Inventors:

Amit Srivastava - Waltham MA, US
Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Francis Kubala - Boston MA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/21

US Classification:

715/530000

Abstract:

A system notifies a user of the detection of data that is relevant to an event of interest. The system obtains a user profile that includes one or more example documents that define the event. The system receives data that corresponds to multimedia information and determines the relevance of the data to the event based on the one or more example documents. The system notifies the user when the data is determined to be relevant.

US Patent:

20040024582, Feb 5, 2004

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610684

Inventors:

Scott Shepard - Waltham MA, US
Francis Kubala - Boston MA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/28

US Classification:

704/002000

Abstract:

A system aids a user in translating an audio signal that includes speech from one language to another. The system retrieves a textual representation of the audio signal and presents the textual representation to the user. The system receives selection of a segment of the textual representation for translation and obtains a portion of the audio signal corresponding to the segment. The system then provides the segment of the textual representation and the portion of the audio signal to the user to help the user translate the audio signal.

US Patent:

20040199495, Oct 7, 2004

Filed:

Jul 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/610799

Inventors:

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

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/003000

Abstract:

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 ().