U.S. Patent 7693720 was awarded to VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. on 2010-04-06 and describes a “Mobile systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance.” This patent has been cited 377 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative computer technology patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

Mobile systems and methods that overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech-based interfaces for telematics applications through the use of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and local or remote command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The invention creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command. The invention may organize domain specific behavior and information into agents, that are distributable or updateable over a wide area network. The invention can be used in dynamic environments such as those of mobile vehicles to control and communicate with both vehicle systems and remote systems and devices. Link: U.S. Patent 7693720

This patent was originally filed on 2003-07-15 which gives it a processing time of 2457 days, compared to an average processing time of 1925 in the field. VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. has 32 total patents. The first named inventor is Robert A. Kennewick of Bellevue, WA. The primary examiner was James S Wozniak.

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