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Liam D. Comerford — 43 Patents

IBM: 39 patents #2,426 of 70,183Top 4%
Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
Carmel, NY: #5 of 217 inventorsTop 3%
New York: #2,386 of 115,490 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Liam D. Comerford has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in January 2019. Liam D. Comerford ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Liam D. Comerford in Carmel, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10170117 User-guided teaching an object of a deictic reference to a machine Mahesh Viswanathan 2019-01-01
9311917 Machine, system and method for user-guided teaching of deictic references and referent objects of deictic references to a conversational command and control system Mahesh Viswanathan 2016-04-12 $2,843,000
8903727 Machine, system and method for user-guided teaching and modifying of voice commands and actions executed by a conversational learning system Mahesh Viswanathan 2014-12-02 $6,879,000
8781832 Methods and apparatus for buffering data for use in accordance with a speech recognition system David C. Frank, Burn Lewis, Leonid Rachevksy, Mahesh Viswanathan 2014-07-15 $5,097,000
8407057 Machine, system and method for user-guided teaching and modifying of voice commands and actions executed by a conversational learning system Mahesh Viswanathan 2013-03-26 $17,026,000
8373665 Interactive display device 2013-02-12 $6,681,000
8254534 Method and apparatus for automatic telephone menu navigation 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8082153 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine Daniel M. Coffman, Steven DeGennaro, Edward A. Epstein, Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Stephane H. Maes +1 more 2011-12-20 $11,265,000
7962340 Methods and apparatus for buffering data for use in accordance with a speech recognition system David C. Frank, Burn Lewis, Leonid Rachevksy, Mahesh Viswanathan 2011-06-14 $11,893,000
7729916 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine Daniel M. Coffman, Steven DeGennaro, Edward A. Epstein, Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Stephane H. Maes +1 more 2010-06-01 $6,263,000
7585431 Electrically conductive polymeric materials and use thereof Ali Afzali-Ardakani, Marie Angelopoulos, Vincent Albert Bourgault, Michael Wayne Mirre, Steven E. Molis +4 more 2009-09-08 $16,659,000
7317789 Method and apparatus for automatic telephone menu navigation 2008-01-08 $8,468,000
7137126 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine Daniel M. Coffman, Steven DeGennaro, Edward A. Epstein, Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Stephane H. Maes +1 more 2006-11-14 $5,090,000
7024363 Methods and apparatus for contingent transfer and execution of spoken language interfaces David C. Frank 2006-04-04 $10,598,000
6748361 Personal speech assistant supporting a dialog manager David C. Frank, David Nahamoo 2004-06-08 $6,083,000
6513009 Scalable low resource dialog manager Paul Derek Fernhout, David C. Frank 2003-01-28 $17,722,000
6168732 Electrically conductive polymeric materials and use thereof Ali Ardakani, Marie Angelopoulos, Vincent Albert Bourgault, Michael Wayne Mirre, Steven E. Molis +4 more 2001-01-02 $72,115,000
6149840 Electrically conductive polymeric materials and use thereof Ali Ardakani, Marie Angelopoulos, Vincent Albert Bourgault, Michael Wayne Mirre, Steven E. Molis +4 more 2000-11-21 $39,339,000
6107935 Systems and methods for access filtering employing relaxed recognition constraints Stephane H. Maes 2000-08-22 $30,771,000
5963671 Enhancement of soft keyboard operations using trigram prediction Thomas Allan Corbi, John P. Karidis, William Dennis Strohm 1999-10-05 $21,756,000
5905486 Mobile client computer programmed to combine cursor, control and input functions Peter James Brittenham 1999-05-18 $41,093,000
5864805 Method and apparatus for error correction in a continuous dictation system Chengjun Julian Chen, Catalina M. Danis, Satya Dharanipragada, Michael D. Monkowski, Peder Andreas Olsen +1 more 1999-01-26 $21,368,000
RE35269 Portable computer hard disk protective reflex system 1996-06-11
5479536 Stroke syntax input device 1995-12-26 $12,466,000
5426732 Method and apparatus for user control by deriving next states of a process from a current state and by providing a visual presentation of the derived next states Stephen Boies, John D. Gould, Susan L. Spraragen, Jacob Ukelson 1995-06-20 $14,068,000