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Maria E. Smith — 31 Patents

IBM: 26 patents #4,017 of 70,183Top 6%
Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
Pembroke Pines, FL: #12 of 889 inventorsTop 2%
Florida: #1,261 of 67,251 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Maria E. Smith has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2021. Maria E. Smith ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Maria E. Smith in Pembroke Pines, FL, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11075956 Dynamic generation of policy enforcement rules and actions from policy attachment semantics Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Gaurang Shah 2021-07-27 $4,187,000
10693746 Instrumentation and monitoring of service level agreement (SLA) and service policy enforcement Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Gaurang Shah 2020-06-23 $2,380,000
10693911 Dynamic generation of policy enforcement rules and actions from policy attachment semantics Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Gaurang Shah 2020-06-23 $2,380,000
10666514 Applying policy attachment service level management (SLM) semantics within a peered policy enforcement deployment Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Gaurang Shah 2020-05-26 $2,933,000
10642682 Interactive multi-level failsafe enablement Jon K. Franks 2020-05-05 $3,712,000
10263857 Instrumentation and monitoring of service level agreement (SLA) and service policy enforcement Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Gaurang Shah 2019-04-16 $3,839,000
10216385 Group radio control Jie Zeng 2019-02-26 $2,499,000
10031800 Interactive multi-level failsafe enablement Jon K. Franks 2018-07-24 $2,645,000
9363289 Instrumentation and monitoring of service level agreement (SLA) and service policy enforcement Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Gaurang Shah 2016-06-07 $4,256,000
9270541 Dynamic generation of policy enforcement rules and actions from policy attachment semantics Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Gaurang Shah 2016-02-23 $5,149,000
9258198 Dynamic generation of policy enforcement rules and actions from policy attachment semantics Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Gaurang Shah 2016-02-09 $2,307,000
9098149 Group radio control Jie Zeng 2015-08-04 $5,566,000
8849669 System for tuning synthesized speech Raimo Bakis, Ellen M. Eide, Roberto Pieraccini, Jie Zeng 2014-09-30 $9,306,000
8538743 Disambiguating text that is to be converted to speech using configurable lexeme based rules Oswaldo Gago, Steven M. Hancock 2013-09-17 $50,144,000
8438032 System for tuning synthesized speech Raimo Bakis, Ellen M. Eide, Roberto Pieraccini, Jie Zeng 2013-05-07 $13,428,000
8265936 Methods and system for creating and editing an XML-based speech synthesis document Ciprian Agapi, Oswaldo Gago, Roberto Vila 2012-09-11 $6,476,000
7853452 Interactive debugging and tuning of methods for CTTS voice building Philip Gleason, Mahesh Viswanathan, Jie Zeng 2010-12-14 $16,695,000
7716052 Method, apparatus and computer program providing a multi-speaker database for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis Andrew Aaron, Ellen M. Eide, Wael Hamza, Michael A. Picheny, Charles T. Rutherfoord +1 more 2010-05-11 $10,477,000
7487092 Interactive debugging and tuning method for CTTS voice building Philip Gleason, Mahesh Viswanathan, Jie Zeng 2009-02-03 $3,057,000
7475016 Speech segment clustering and ranking Jie Zeng 2009-01-06 $2,860,000
7464065 Object specific language extension interface for a multi-level data structure Philip Gleason, Steven M. Hancock 2008-12-09 $6,024,000
7280967 Method for detecting misaligned phonetic units for a concatenative text-to-speech voice Philip Gleason, Jie Zeng 2007-10-09 $10,326,000
7103533 Method for preserving contextual accuracy in an extendible speech recognition language model James R. Lewis, Kerry A. Ortega, C. Thomas Rutherfoord 2006-09-05 $3,397,000
7043432 Method and system for text-to-speech caching Raimo Bakis, Hari Chittaluru, Edward A. Epstein, Steven J. Friedland, Abraham P. Ittycheriah +3 more 2006-05-09 $8,133,000
6745165 Method and apparatus for recognizing from here to here voice command structures in a finite grammar speech recognition system James R. Lewis, Kerry A. Ortega, Thomas A. Kist, Linda M. Boyer 2004-06-01 $8,295,000