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Pamela Fetters, Phoenix, AZ US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20080276501 | LUGGAGE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - A luggage identification system that is somewhat uniform in its design, but may be personalized by the passenger to uniquely identify their luggage. The luggage identification system may include a display strap, an identifying graphic, and a fastening device. The luggage identification system is constructed so that it tends to stand up and away from the bag like a flag, so that it remains visible from a distance. Since customization of a graphic device is provided the visible luggage identification system may be recognized by the passenger and retrieved by them. The luggage identification system is also of sufficient strength and shape to act as a handle for retrieving the luggage, which tends to be useful as the passenger may naturally tend to reach for what they recognize. | 11-13-2008 |
Scott Fetters, San Diego, CA US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20110010260 | Incentive System And Method For Network-Based Purchases - An incentive system and method for network-based purchases or sales is disclosed. A number of slices of revenue is defined and associated with an initial product purchase, executed over a network by a product vending system. The slices include a creator slice of the revenue associated with a creator of the product, and one or more purchaser slices associated with respective one or more purchasers of the product. For subsequent product purchases, a profit related to each subsequent product purchase is calculated. For each subsequent product purchase, the profit to the creator and to the one or more purchasers is apportioned based on their respective associated creator slice and one or more purchaser slices. | 01-13-2011 |
Shane Fetters, St. Peter, MN US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20100094632 | System and Method of Developing A TTS Voice - Disclosed herein are various aspects of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of tracking progress in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method comprises insuring that a corpus of recorded speech contains reading errors and matches an associated written text, creating a tuple for each utterance in the corpus and tracking progress for each utterance utilizing the tuple. Various parameters may be tracked using the tuple but the tuple provides a means for enabling multiple workers to efficiently process a database of utterance in preparation of a TTS voice. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100100385 | System and Method for Testing a TTS Voice - Disclosed are various elements of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The invention in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for preparing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice for testing and verification. The method comprises processing a TTS voice to be ready for testing, synthesizing words utilizing the TTS voice, presenting to a person a smallest possible subset that contains at least N instances of a group of units in the TTS voice, receiving information from the person associated with corrections needed to the TTS voice and making corrections to the TTS voice according to the received information. | 04-22-2010 |
Terrence Fetters, Tewksbury, MA US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20110213905 | COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR CONTROLLING TRANSFER OF TEMPORAL DATA OVER A BUS BETWEEN DEVICES IN SYNCHRONIZATION WITH A PERIODIC REFERENCE SIGNAL - A communication protocol over the serial bus allows a peripheral device to control the flow of data between a host computer and the peripheral device so as to maintain synchronization to a periodic reference signal. The protocol involves transferring flow control messages between the peripheral device and the host computer, allowing the peripheral device to control how and when the host computer sends the uncompressed audio and video data. | 09-01-2011 |