Inventor · Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, CA

Benoit Dumoulin

46Patents
11h-index
69Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 21, 1999 → Feb 3, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7206389B1 Method and apparatus for generating a speech-recognition-based call-routing system Electricity 88 Expired
US10977258B1 Content summarization for assistant systems Electricity 71 Active
US10854206B1 Identifying users through conversations for assistant systems Electricity 66 Active
US6856957B1 Query expansion and weighting based on results of automatic speech recognition Physics 66 Expired
US10761866B2 Intent identification for agent matching by assistant systems Electricity 52 Active
US11308169B1 Generating multi-perspective responses by assistant systems Electricity 39 Active
US6868381B1 Method and apparatus providing hypothesis driven speech modelling for use in speech recognition Physics 35 Expired
US10963273B2 Generating personalized content summaries for users Electricity 32 Active
US9996531B1 Conversational understanding Physics 18 Active
US10452782B1 Systems and methods for distributing intent models Physics 14 Active
US6502070B1 Method and apparatus for normalizing channel specific speech feature elements Physics 12 Expired
US9922654B2 Incremental utterance decoder combination for efficient and accurate decoding Physics 11 Active
US9679558B2 Language modeling for conversational understanding domains using semantic web resources Physics 9 Active
US8204874B2 Abbreviation handling in web search Physics 8 Active
US8255414B2 Search assist powered by session analysis Physics 8 Active
US10762438B1 Extracting questions and answers Physics 7 Active
US8112436B2 Semantic and text matching techniques for network search Physics 5 Active
US7809715B2 Abbreviation handling in web search Physics 5 Active
US9761220B2 Language modeling based on spoken and unspeakable corpuses Physics 5 Active
US9529794B2 Flexible schema for language model customization Physics 5 Active
US10853103B2 Contextual auto-completion for assistant systems Electricity 4 Active
US8903845B2 Systems and methods for providing search assistance technologies based on user self-efficacy and search frustration Physics 4 Active
US7865452B2 Social knowledge system content quality Physics 3 Active
US10726843B2 Methods and systems for responding to inquiries based on social graph information Physics 3 Active
US9997157B2 Knowledge source personalization to improve language models Physics 3 Active

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