US 5,850,627 C1 (7070th)
APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND OPERATING SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
Joel M. Gould, Winchester, Mass.; Elizabeth E. Steele, Cambridge, Mass.; Frank J. McGrath, Wellesley, Mass.; Steven D. Squires, Sudbury, Mass.; Peter S. Heitman, Milton, Mass.; Joel W. Parke, Marlboro, Mass.; Dean G. Sturtevant, Watertown, Mass.; Jed M. Roberts, Newton, Mass., and James K. Baker, West Newton, Mass., assignors to USB AG Stamford Branch, Stamford, Conn.
Reexamination Request No. 90/008,393, Dec. 21, 2006.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 5,850,627, issued Dec. 15, 1998, Appl. No. 883,297, Jun. 26, 1997.
Division of application No. 08/382,752, filed on Feb. 1, 1995, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 07/976,413, filed on Nov. 13, 1992, now Pat. No. 5,428,707.
Int. Cl. G10L 15/26;15/18;15/00;15/28;15/06;15/22; G09B 19/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 704—231
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 2-6 is confirmed.
Claims 1, 7-17 are cancelled.
2. A computerized method as in claim 1 wherein:
said storing of a plurality of vocabulary words includes storing a plurality of command vocabulary words, each of which has a function associated with it;
said active vocabulary against which said word signal is scored includes one or more of said command vocabulary words; and
said responding to said scoring which is better than a certain level includes responding to a score of said post-prompt word signal against one of said command vocabulary words which is better than a certain measure by causing the function associated with that command vocabulary word to be executed.