| AT&T Intellectual Property ll, LP Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20110313776 | System and Method for Controlling Devices that are Connected to a Network - A system, method and computer-readable medium for controlling devices connected to a network. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user for remotely controlling a device in a network; converting the received utterance to text using an automatic speech recognition module; accessing a user profile in the network that governs access to a plurality of devices on the network and identifiers which control a conversion of the text to a device specific control language; identifying based on the text a device to be controlled; converting at least a portion of the text to the device control language; and transmitting the device control language to the identified device, wherein the identified device implements a function based on the transmitted device control language. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110246184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING ACCURACY OF SEARCHES BASED ON COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for using a local communication network to generate a speech model. The method includes retrieving for an individual a list of numbers in a calling history, identifying a local neighborhood associated with each number in the calling history, truncating the local neighborhood associated with each number based on the at least one parameter, retrieving a local communication network associated with each number in the calling history and each phone number in the local neighborhood, and creating a language model for the individual based on the retrieved local communication network. The generated language model may be used for improved automatic speech recognition for audible searches as well as other modules in a spoken dialog system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110218807 | Method for Automated Sentence Planning in a Task Classification System - The invention relates to a method for sentence planning ( | 09-08-2011 |