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Bryan M. Lewis, North Brunswick, NJ US
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| 20120029213 | INTERMEDIATES FOR THE PREPARATION OF ANALOGS OF HALICHONDRIN B - Intermediates and methods of their use in the synthesis of analogs of halichondrin B are provided. | 02-02-2012 |
Edward L. Lewis, Maplewood, NJ US
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| 20080262547 | CONNECTOR FOR ATTACHING AN ALIGNMENT ROD TO A BONE STRUCTURE - A connector for a spinal alignment system includes a base, a hook, a guide aperture, and a locking portion. The base includes a channel extending therethrough to receive a fixation rod. The hook extends from the base. The guide aperture is adapted to receive a bone fastener and the locking portion is adapted to engage the bone fastener. The guide aperture extends through one of the base and the hook and the locking portion is located in the other of the base and the hook. The locking portion is coaxial with the guide aperture such that the guide aperture guides a shaft of the bone fastener into alignment with the locking portion when the bone fastener is received by the guide aperture. The bone fastener cooperates with the base and hook to form a tension band construct that resists opposing forces acting on the construct. A rod locking fastener engages the channel and the fixation rod to secure the fixation rod in the channel. The rod locking fastener and the base include mating surfaces that cooperate with each other to resist the force exerted by the fixation rod onto the rod locking fastener when the fixation rod is secured in the channel. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090306722 | CONNECTOR FOR ATTACHING AN ALIGNMENT ROD TO A BONE STRUCTURE - A connector for a spinal alignment system includes a base, a hook, a guide aperture, and a locking portion. The base includes a channel extending therethrough to receive a fixation rod. The hook extends from the base. The guide aperture is adapted to receive a bone fastener and the locking portion is adapted to engage the bone fastener. The guide aperture extends through one of the base and the hook and the locking portion is located in the other of the base and the hook. The locking portion is coaxial with the guide aperture such that the guide aperture guides a shaft of the bone fastener into alignment with the locking portion when the bone fastener is received by the guide aperture. The bone fastener cooperates with the base and hook to form a tension band construct that resists opposing forces acting on the construct. A rod locking fastener engages the channel and the fixation rod to secure the fixation rod in the channel. The rod locking fastener and the base include mating surfaces that cooperate with each other to resist the force exerted by the fixation rod onto the rod locking fastener when the fixation rod is secured in the channel. | 12-10-2009 |
H. Dan Lewis, Orange, NJ US
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| 20100137187 | Glutamate-Enhanced Cell-Penetrating Peptides and Methods of Using Same - Disclosed herein are novel glutamate-enhanced cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) for use as delivery vehicles to mediate intracellular uptake of therapeutic payloads and methods of using the same. | 06-03-2010 |
Jeffrey Lewis, Jersey City, NJ US
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| 20110082009 | INSTRUMENTED HANDLE AND PEDAL SYSTEMS FOR USE IN REHABILITATION, EXERCISE AND TRAINING EQUIPMENT - A mechatronic exercise system, e.g., for rehabilitation, having instrumented handle and pedal systems and, preferably, an interactive virtual environment is disclosed. Alternatively, the instrumented handle and pedal systems are part of a virtual reality augmenting kit that can convert most types of exercise equipment, such as a stationary or exercise bicycle, ergometer, rowing machine or the like, into full virtual reality (VR) smart systems. In another embodiment, the instrumented handle and pedal systems can each be used separately with other types of devices. In a preferred embodiment, components embedded with sensors are implemented, e.g., on a stationary, exercise bicycle to monitor physiological and biomechanical parameters of the user. Signal data from the sensing components is used to immerse the user in a VR simulation so as to provide the user with visual, auditory, and haptic feedback to the user's performance. | 04-07-2011 |
Jeffrey E. Lewis, Morristown, NJ US
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| 20090087133 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPATIAL FILTERING - Methods and devices for polarizing light in a proton exchange polarizer where cross-coupling of unwanted modes of light is reduced with an integrated spatial filter. An optically transmissive substrate such as a substrate created from LiNbO | 04-02-2009 |
Lisa E. Lewis, Basking Ridge, NJ US
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| 20110153475 | FEDERAL ADJUSTMENT TRACKING SYSTEM - Tracking federal adjustments includes receiving an automated upload at a database, from a tax platform implemented on at least one processor, of at least one of: a beginning balance, a thirteenth period adjustment and an ending balance for a general ledger account. User input specifying a type of tax report is received. A report itemizing data stored in the database and calculations based on the data stored in the database, in accordance with the user input. | 06-23-2011 |
Patti Jo Lewis, Highland Park, NJ US
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| 20090232874 | FIBROUS MEMBRANE FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION BASED ON POLY(ESTER-AMIDE)S - Electrospun biodegradable poly(ester-amide) fabric is especially suitable as a scaffold for tissue engineering and to incorporate drug for burn or wound healing treatment to accelerate healing, or to prevent tissue adhesion after surgery. | 09-17-2009 |
Robert T. Lewis, Medford, NJ US
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| 20100185466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING HEALTH-RELATED SPENDING FOR VALIDATION OF DISABILITY BENEFITS CLAIMS - A method for tracking health-related spending for validation of disability benefits claims includes receiving, by a Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, from an authorization server, an identification of an approved transaction initiated by a recipient of insurance settlement funds to acquire at least one of a healthcare-related service and a healthcare-related good by a provider, the recipient authorized to receive the at least one of the healthcare-related service and the healthcare-related good from the provider. The method includes tracking, by the Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, healthcare-related expenditures by the recipient. The method includes generating, by the Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, a statement of approved transactions. The method includes transmitting, by the Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, to a disability benefit provider, the statement of approved transactions. | 07-22-2010 |
Stanford Lewis, Irvington, NJ US
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| 20090157903 | Methods and Apparatus for Trouble Reporting Management in a Multiple System Service Environment - Systems and techniques for managing and acting on trouble reports. A system comprising a plurality of subsystems maintains a central exchange for mediating problem referrals and resolutions between subsystems. A subsystem receives a trouble report and creates a trouble ticket in its native format. To refer the trouble ticket or a problem, the referral information, is translated to a generic format of the exchange. Appropriate problems are referred to subsystems, translating problem information into the native format of a receiving subsystem. Information generated by a receiving subsystem in its native format, including cause and root cause information for the problem, is translated to the generic format of the central exchange, and used to update the trouble ticket. After the central exchange has finished with the trouble ticket, the ticket is translated to the native format of its originating subsystem and further steps are taken by the originating subsystem as appropriate. | 06-18-2009 |
Steven Lewis, Middletown, NJ US
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| 20100017000 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE PLAYBACK OF INFORMATION IN INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEMS - A network communication node includes an audio outputter that outputs an audible representation of data to be provided to a requester. The network communication node also includes a processor that determines a categorization of the data to be provided to the requester and that varies a pause between segments of the audible representation of the data in accordance with the categorization of the data to be provided to the requester. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20110137652 | ENHANCED ACCURACY FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION GRAMMARS - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based on the matched data. If the received speech does not match data in the precompiled grammar, then dynamically compiling a new grammar based only on new data added to the database after the compiling of the precompiled grammar. The database may comprise a directory of names. | 06-09-2011 |
Steven H. Lewis, Middletown, NJ US
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| 20090144050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING BY CORRECTING COMMON ERRORS IN LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE - A method and system for automatic speech recognition are disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech from a user, the speech including at least one speech error, increasing the probabilities of closely related words to the at least one speech error and processing the received speech using the increased probabilities. A corpora of data having common words that are mis-stated is used to identify and increase the probabilities of related words. The method applies to at least the automatic speech recognition module and the spoken language understanding module. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090232283 | System and Method for Dynamic Adjustment of a Transfer Strategy - A method for determining a value for a call center, the value relating to an availability of the call center and setting a transfer strategy of an automated interactive voice response system based on the value. In addition, a system having a strategy adjustment module monitoring a call center and determining a value for the call center, the value relating to an availability of the call center and an automated response module setting a transfer strategy to transfer calls to the call center based on the value. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100083360 | PORTABLE AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - In one aspect, a disclosed portable authentication device (PAD) includes a processor, storage media, an interface for enabling communication with an external information handling system (IHS), e.g., a computer or a telephony device, and executable instructions embedded in the storage media, for automated authentication. The embedded instructions include instructions for enabling a user to store authentication information, e.g., use ID and password information, corresponding to an IHS destination, e.g., a telephone number of an interactive voice response system or an IP address of a web server. If the PAD recognizes the current destination, the PAD may respond to an assertion of a keypad control element by making authorization information corresponding to the current destination available to the user or providing the authorization information directly to the current destination. The PAD may include one or more telephony interface(s), e.g., RJ-11 jack(s) and one or more computer interfaces, e.g., USB connector(s). | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100161337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH WITH DIALECT GRAMMARS - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for recognizing speech. The method includes receiving speech from a user, perceiving at least one speech dialect in the received speech, selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars based on at least one score associated with the perceived speech dialect and the perceived at least one speech dialect, and recognizing the received speech with the selected at least one grammar. Selecting at least one grammar can be further based on a user profile. Multiple grammars can be blended. Predefined parameters can include pronunciation differences, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Optimized dialect grammars can be domain specific. The method can further include recognizing initial received speech with a generic grammar until an optimized dialect grammar is selected. Selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars can be based on a certainty threshold. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100217597 | Systems and Methods for Monitoring Speech Data Labelers - Systems and methods for using an annotation guide to label utterances and speech data with a call type are disclosed. A method embodiment monitors labelers of speech data by presenting via a processor a test utterance to a labeler, receiving input from the labeler that selects a particular call type from a list of call types and determining via the processor if the labeler labeled the test utterance correctly. Based on the determining step, the method performs at least one of the following: revising the annotation guide, retraining the labeler or altering the test utterance. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100316197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REASSIGNMENT OF CLASSIFIER PROBABILITIES BASED ON DYNAMIC EVENTS - A method and apparatus for reassignment of classifier probabilities based on dynamic events is disclosed. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for dynamically detecting change in the rate and type of calls, reassigning the natural language classifier probabilities based on the dynamics of the change and routing calls according to the detected changes. The method enables the user to route calls efficiently and be more responsive to customers. | 12-16-2010 |
Steven H. Lewis, Middleton, NJ US
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| 20090112590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING INTERACTION WITH A USER THROUGH A DYNAMICALLY ALTERABLE SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM - Disclosed are systems and methods for dynamically interacting with a user through a spoken dialogue system. A method includes the steps of (1) receiving a user utterance, (2) analyzing the user utterance for a threshold determination of dialect, (3) generating a response that reflects an incremental implementation of the dialect, (4) further varying the perceived implementation of the dialect in subsequent responses by a process of: (a) receiving a subsequent user utterance, (b) determining a modified level of confidence in the dialect based at least in part from the subsequent utterance, (c) generating a subsequent response that implements an incremental variation according to the modified level of confidence. | 04-30-2009 |
Steven Hart Lewis, Middletown, NJ US
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| 20100042414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING NAME DIALER PERFORMANCE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for improving name dialer performance. The method includes receiving a speech query for a name in a directory of names, retrieving matches to the query, if the matches are uniquely spelled homophones or near-homophones, identifying information that is unique to all retrieved matches, and presenting a spoken disambiguation statement to a user that incorporates the identified unique information. Identifying information can include multiple pieces of unique information if necessary to completely disambiguate the matches. A hierarchy can establish priority of multiple pieces of unique information for use in the spoken disambiguation statement. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100049526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDITORY CAPTCHAS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for performing an audible human verification. The method includes determining that a human verification is needed, presenting an audible challenge to a user which exploits a known issue with automatic speech recognition processes, receiving a response to the audible challenge, and verifying that a human provided the response. The known issue with automatic speech recognition processes can be recognition of a non-word, in which case the user can be asked to spell the recognized non-word. The known issue with automatic speech recognition processes can be differentiation of simultaneous input for multiple audio streams. Multiple audio streams contained in the audible challenge can be provided monaurally. Verifying that a human provided the response can include confirming the contents of one of the multiple audio streams. Audible human verification can be performed in combination with visual human verification. | 02-25-2010 |
William N. Lewis, Hamilton Square, NJ US
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| 20100133225 | Bottle Closure with Low Torque Assembly Feature - A closure system for a container reduces the needed torque for assembly by minimizing frictional resistance to rotation of the closure into its desired alignment with the container before the closure is driven home onto the container neck. The reduction in the torque resistance during the application of the closure allows the rotary filling machinery to work within its torque limits and minimizes damage to the parts during the filling and sealing operation in a bottle filling line. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100213207 | Detachable Sanitary Cover for Dispenser and Method of Using Same - A detachable cover ( | 08-26-2010 |