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US20080091458 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TITLE PRODUCTS  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for generating title products. A device accepts a title product search request for a title product for a property. The device initiates a...
US20080091457 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING WEB-BASED TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN A BUYER AND A SELLER  
The subject application is directed to a system and method for facilitating web-based transactions between a buyer and a seller. A page request is first received from a buyer device by an operator...
US20080091456 System and method for saving the rainforests.  
The present invention tries to solve the problem of rainforests destruction by creating a strong financial incentive that makes preserving the rain forests much more profitable than destroying...
US20080091455 AUTOMATED METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND EVALUATING JOB APPLICATIONS USING A WEB-BASED SYSTEM  
An automated, Web-based system and method for rating a candidate for employment, wherein an application and/or resume are submitted electronically and are subjected to an automated review process,...
US20080091454 NETWORK-BASED PLATFORM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMER TECHNICAL SUPPORT  
A technical support system includes a problems data store storing a problem information related to a plurality of problems identified in response to other reported incidents, a problem search...
US20080091453 Behaviormetrics application system for electronic transaction authorization  
This invention discloses a system wherein behaviormetrics are utilized to authenticate electronic transactions, either alone or in combination with other identifiers such as PIN's, passwords, codes...
US20080091452 Visual physician office systems and methods  
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling a virtual physician office (VPO) that uses a network-based physician practice application and leverages the assets of a shared, communications network...
US20080091451 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPLIANCE CONFIRMATION AND INCENTIVES  
Methods and systems are disclosed for promoting use of research devices by a plurality of research device users or by a single research device user in compliance with at least one predetermined use...
US20080091450 Act support program, method, and apparatus  
In a display area of a display, a KPT screen in which a theme area, a keep area (Keep), a problem area (Problem), and a try area (Try) are disposed is displayed. When a click of the area is...
US20080091449 Billboard postage stamps new place for financial market  
1. Postage Stamps, block postage stamps and/or roll postage stamps as a source of information consists of paper base 1 over such base is located area of billboard indicated as 2. In any of the...
US20080091448 System and method of integrating enterprise applications  
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to enterprise application integration. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied...
US20080091447 Discrete pest management for public accommodations  
A method for discrete pest management, preferably for public accommodations. The service provider dresses and behaves as a usual repairperson for the establishment. The attire of the service...
US20080091446 Method and system for maximizing revenue generated from service level agreements  
A method for maximizing revenue generated from a plurality of service level agreements (SLAs) that includes receiving a first subset of the plurality of SLAs for executing a first plurality of...
US20080091445 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED ON SIMILAR TRAVEL ITINERARIES  
In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for dynamic social networking based on similar travel itineraries. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a...
US20080091444 Method of facilitate obtaining, storing, and subsequently conveying information between related generations  
A party (such as a private entity) obtains ( 101 ) information from a plurality of unrelated individuals. This party then identifies ( 104 ) candidate information recipients as a function of...
US20080091443 Business listing search  
A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes prompting a user to provide a type of business and an identifier of a specific business, receiving from the user a...
US20080091442 Managing part number preferredness  
Methods, systems and apparatus for defining, updating and communicating the current status of parts used by an enterprise to designers and procurement specialists. Allowable values of preferredness...
US20080091441 Employee management  
Among other things, at least part of an organizational chart of an enterprise is displayed to a manager, the displayed organizational chart including employee positions and their relationships, and...
US20080091440 Sound Encoder And Sound Encoding Method  
A sound encoder having an improved quantization performance while suppressing an increase of the bit rate to a lowest level. In a second layer encoding unit ( 40 ), a standard deviation calculating...
US20080091439 HYBRID MULTI-CHANNEL/CUE CODING/DECODING OF AUDIO SIGNALS  
Part of the spectrum of two or more input signals is encoded using conventional coding techniques, while encoding the rest of the spectrum using binaural cue coding (BCC). In BCC coding, spectral...
US20080091438 AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER AND RESOURCE ACCESS CONTROL METHOD  
The audio signal decoder of the present invention includes a first decoding unit which decodes a first encoded audio signal, a second decoding unit which decodes a second encoded audio signal, a...
US20080091437 Control mechanism for audio rate adjustment  
A system and method for controlling rate adjustment of audio data to prevent underflow or overflow. In a dual audio/video system, a device can receive two input transport streams. To prevent...
US20080091436 Audio Channel Conversion  
A device ( 1 ) for converting a first number (M) of input audio channels into a second, larger number (N) of output audio channels comprises: decorrelation units ( 3 ) for decomposing the input...
US20080091435 Business listing search  
A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes selecting a subset of speech recognition language models from a larger set of speech recognition language models...
US20080091434 Building a Dictionary Based on Speech Signals that are Compressed  
Systems and methods for training voice activation control of electronic equipment are disclosed. One example method includes receiving a selection corresponding to at least one command used to...
US20080091433 Control system  
A system has a speech control interface operable to provide a speech sequence to which a user response is required before system functionality is operational. A user response can be provided via a...
US20080091432 System and method for voice control of electrically powered devices  
A method and system for controlling electrically powered devices, such as a light or a television, using a spoken command. The method and system of this invention desirably assists physically...
US20080091431 Method And Apparatus Of Generating Text Script For A Corpus-Based Text-To Speech System  
A method of text script generation for a corpus-based text-to-speech system includes searching in a source corpus having L sentences, selecting N sentences with a best integrated efficiency as N...
US20080091430 Method and apparatus for predicting word prominence in speech synthesis  
A method and apparatus is provided for generating speech that sounds more natural. In one embodiment, word prominence and latent semantic analysis are used to generate more natural sounding speech....
US20080091429 ENHANCEMENT TO VITERBI SPEECH PROCESSING ALGORITHM FOR HYBRID SPEECH MODELS THAT CONSERVES MEMORY  
The present invention discloses a method for semantically processing speech for speech recognition purposes. The method can reduce an amount of memory required for a Viterbi search of an N-gram...
US20080091428 Methods and apparatus related to pruning for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis  
The present invention provides, among other things, automatic identification of near-redundant units in a large TTS voice table, identifying which units are distinctive enough to keep and which...
US20080091427 Hierarchical word indexes used for efficient N-gram storage  
Systems and methods are provided for compressing data models, for example, N-gram language models used in speech recognition applications. Words in the vocabulary of the language model are assigned...
US20080091426 ADAPTIVE CONTEXT FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS  
A system improves speech recognition includes an interface linked to a speech recognition engine. A post-recognition processor coupled to the interface compares recognized speech data generated by...
US20080091425 Voice print recognition software system for voice identification and matching  
Positive identification of local inhabitants plays an important role in modern military, police and security operations. Since terrorists use all means to masquerade as local inhabitants, the...
US20080091424 Minimum classification error training with growth transformation optimization  
Hidden Markov Model (HMM) parameters are updated using update equations based on growth transformation optimization of a minimum classification error objective function. Using the list of N-best...
US20080091423 Generation of domain models from noisy transcriptions  
A method of building a domain specific model from transcriptions is disclosed. The method starts by applying text clustering to the transcriptions to form text clusters. The text clustering is...
US20080091422 SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR  
A speech recognition method includes inputting an audio signal including a speech signal and a non-speech signal, discriminating a signal mode of the audio signal, processing the audio signal...
US20080091421 Device And Method For Voice Activity Detection  
A device includes a sound signal analyser configured to determine whether a sound signal comprises speech. The device further includes a microphone system configured to discriminate sounds...
US20080091420 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING AUDIO DATA  
An apparatus is used for reproducing digitized and compressed encoded audio data from a portable audio storage device. The apparatus includes a data reader, a processor, a volume adjusting module,...
US20080091419 Audio Encoding Device and Audio Encoding Method  
There is provided an audio encoding device capable of generating an appropriate monaural signal from a stereo signal while suppressing the lowering of encoding efficiency of the monaural signal. In...
US20080091418 Pitch lag estimation  
Autocorrelation values are determined as a basis for an estimation of a pitch lag in a segment of an audio signal. A first considered delay range for the autocorrelation computations is divided...
US20080091417 Pitch conversion method and device  
In a pitch conversion method and device which can reduce data throughput while suppressing a degradation of sound quality due to a pitch conversion as much as possible, an input signal pitch...
US20080091416 Method, medium and apparatus enhancing a bass signal using an auditory property  
Provided are a method, medium and apparatus for enhancing an acoustic signal using an auditory property. An acoustic signal is enhanced by generating a plurality of harmonic signals based on a...
US20080091415 System and method for canceling acoustic echoes in audio-conference communication systems  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a frequency-domain coder/decoder for an audio-conference communication system that includes acoustic-echo-cancellation functionality. In...
US20080091414 Perceptible signals giving an impression of continuous pace change  
A perceptible signal is provided, which is a repetition of a time-limited perceptible signal sequence. The time-limited perceptible signal sequence comprises at least two sets of signal elements,...
US20080091413 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING AN ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY OF MULTI-WORD NAMES AND FOR PERFORMING FUZZY SEARCHES IN THE DICTIONARY  
The present invention automatically builds a contracted dictionary from a given list of multi-word proper names and performs fuzzy searches in the contracted dictionary. The contracted dictionary...
US20080091412 BUSINESS LISTING SEARCH  
A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes receiving category-business pairs, each category-business pair including a business category and a specific business,...
US20080091411 Method for identifying a meaning of a word capable of identifying several meanings  
A series of methods and systems for identifying a meaning or plurality of meanings of a word are disclosed for registering, searching and/or retrieving information. In one embodiment, a person...
US20080091410 Method for forming words  
A method of forming words utilizing a character actuator unit in which the character actuators are segregated into certain categories. First and second categories are employed and activated...
US20080091409 Customizable mathematic expression parser and evaluator  
A customizable, portable, object-oriented expression parser and evaluator provides the ability to customize syntactic and semantic elements of expression parsing and evaluation via class...