Inventor
Alexander Mark Franz
Inventor
Palo Alto, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 35 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G06Fprimary
G06FElectric digital data processing53%
G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis34%
Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests11%
G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes2%
PatentTitleYear
10,885,285Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models202110,089,304Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models20189,619,465'Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models'20178,768,700'Voice search engine interface for scoring search hypotheses'20148,738,357'Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models'20148,676,790'Methods and systems for improving search rankings using advertising data'20148,583,636'Systems and methods for determining a quality of provided items'20138,515,752'Voice interface for a search engine'20138,380,502'Voice interface for a search engine'20138,296,123'Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models'20128,065,296'Systems and methods for determining a quality of provided items'20117,555,428'System and method for identifying compounds through iterative analysis'20097,506,254'Predictive conversion of user input'20097,386,438'Identifying language attributes through probabilistic analysis'20087,366,668'Voice interface for a search engine'20087,302,645'Methods and systems for identifying manipulated articles'20077,027,987'Voice interface for a search engine'20066,928,448'System and method to match linguistic structures using thesaurus information'20056,778,949'Method and system to analyze, transfer and generate language expressions using compiled instructions to manipulate linguistic structures'20046,721,697'Method and system for reducing lexical ambiguity'20046,529,865'System and method to compile instructions to manipulate linguistic structures into separate functions'20036,442,524'Analyzing inflectional morphology in a spoken language translation system'20026,393,388'Example-based translation method and system employing multi-stage syntax dividing'20026,374,224'Method and apparatus for style control in natural language generation'20026,356,865'Method and apparatus for performing spoken language translation'20026,330,530'Method and system for transforming a source language linguistic structure into a target language linguistic structure based on example linguistic feature structures'20016,282,507'Method and apparatus for interactive source language expression recognition and alternative hypothesis presentation and selection'20016,278,968'Method and apparatus for adaptive speech recognition hypothesis construction and selection in a spoken language translation system'20016,266,642'Method and portable apparatus for performing spoken language translation'20016,243,669'Method and apparatus for providing syntactic analysis and data structure for translation knowledge in example-based language translation'20016,223,150'Method and apparatus for parsing in a spoken language translation system'20016,163,785'Integrated authoring and translation system'20006,161,083'Example-based translation method and system which calculates word similarity degrees, a priori probability, and transformation probability to determine the best example for translation'20005,995,920'Computer-based method and system for monolingual document development'19995,677,835'Integrated authoring and translation system'1997Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1997–2000Based in Pittsburgh, PA, US· patent location history
2000–2004Patents assigned to SONY CORP (14)· patent assignee history
2000–2002Based in Tokyo, JP· patent location history
2001–2005Patents assigned to SONY ELECTRONICS INC (13)· patent assignee history
2001–2021Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history
2006–2017Patents assigned to GOOGLE INC (15)· patent assignee history
2011–2014Patents assigned to FRANZ ALEXANDER MARK (7)· patent assignee history
2011–2014Patents assigned to HENZINGER MONIKA H (5)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| GOOGLE INC | 15 | 2006–2017 |
| SONY CORP | 14 | 2000–2004 |
| SONY ELECTRONICS INC | 13 | 2001–2005 |
| FRANZ ALEXANDER MARKself | 7 | 2011–2014 |
| HENZINGER MONIKA H | 5 | 2011–2014 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto, California, US | 30 | 2001–2021 |
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US | 3 | 1997–2000 |
| Tokyo, JP | 2 | 2000–2002 |