PHONETIC SEARCHING USING MULTIPLE READINGS

Patent №

US 7,366,984

Granted

2008-04-29

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11192637

The names of contacts are stored as characters. Each character may include one or more phonic codes that are encoded into the character. A smart filter decodes the character into its constituent sounds. An input string is received that includes phonic codes. An application matches the decoded constituent sounds with the specified phonetic codes from the input string in accordance with rules of the spoken language and character boundaries to determine a contact to display.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.27
Knowledge representation0.14
Machine learning0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 164960154

Assignors

ROBBINS, DARYN E., RAMSEY, MARSHALL CHRISTIAN, KLEIN, MATTHEW DAVID

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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