US 7,751,431
Posted on | September 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
Coversheet of US 7,751,431.
There is one type of junk mail I don’t mind seeing in my postal inbox. Whenever the US Patent Office grants a patent, all kinds of opportunists from the awards, personalization, and engraving industry spam the inventors with offers of beautiful plaques engraved with the patent’s front page.
I was happy to experience this junk mail avalanche once again this past summer when US 7,751,431 was granted. This patent covered work I did with my Motorola colleagues Jim Ferrans and Mike Pearce back in 2004. Back then we were studying distributed multimodal architectures. More specifically, we were looking for ways to integrate a speech recognition modality into applications running on mobile handsets, where the speech recognition was resident in the network. This is one of several approaches we came up with.
On a related topic, not so long ago Jim Ferrans and I published a book chapter in which we survey a wide variety of issues and findings that resulted from our foray into mobile application architectures with network-based speech recognition modalities. The book itself is rather pricey, but happily you can download a copy of our chapter for free from Motorola’s technical publications site.
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Jonathan Engelsma is a computer scientist, programmer, teacher, mobile technology enthusiast, inventor, beekeeper and life long student. He is currently an Associate Professor in GVSU's School of Computing, where he leads the GVSU Mobile Applications and Services Laboratory.
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