Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Stephane H. Maes

234Patents
64h-index
114Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 2, 1996 → Oct 26, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6016476A Portable information and transaction processing system and method utilizing biometric authorization and digital certificate security Electricity 863 Expired
US6964023B2 System and method for multi-modal focus detection, referential ambiguity resolution and mood classification using multi-modal input Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 536 Expired
US6421453B1 Apparatus and methods for user recognition employing behavioral passwords Physics 524 Expired
US7137126B1 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine Electricity 512 Expired
US6801604B2 Universal IP-based and scalable architectures across conversational applications using web services for speech and audio processing resources Electricity 507 Expired
US8082153B2 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine Electricity 477 Active
US7729916B2 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine Electricity 467 Active
US7546382B2 Methods and systems for authoring of mixed-initiative multi-modal interactions and related browsing mechanisms Physics 438 Expired
US6934756B2 Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols Electricity 432 Expired
US7003463B1 System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services Electricity 411 Expired
US5897616A Apparatus and methods for speaker verification/identification/classification employing non-acoustic and/or acoustic models and databases Physics 378 Expired
US6665644B1 Conversational data mining Electricity 367 Expired
US6150961A Automated traffic mapping Physics 360 Expired
US6434520B1 System and method for indexing and querying audio archives Physics 276 Expired
US6970935B1 Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols Electricity 270 Expired
US6317834A Biometric authentication system with encrypted models Electricity 263 Expired
US8073810B2 Shared view of customers across business support systems (BSS) and a service delivery platform (SDP) Physics 259 Active
US6219639A Method and apparatus for recognizing identity of individuals employing synchronized biometrics Physics 258 Expired
US7403763B2 Device agent Electricity 254 Expired
US7877090B2 Roaming across different access mechanisms and network technologies Electricity 245 Active
US7711848B2 System using session initiation protocol for seamless network switching in a media streaming session Electricity 235 Active
US8005988B2 Best effort seamless network switch in a media streaming session Electricity 233 Active
US7546460B2 Secure communications across multiple protocols Electricity 223 Active
US6735695B1 Methods and apparatus for restricting access of a user using random partial biometrics Physics 218 Expired
US6092192A Apparatus and methods for providing repetitive enrollment in a plurality of biometric recognition systems based on an initial enrollment Electricity 211 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.