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Ethan R. Bradford
Also filed as: BRADFORD ETHAN · BRADFORD ETHAN R · BRADFORD ETHAN ROBERT
28 granted patents·7 pending applications·2,157 citations·filing 1999–2017
97Inventor score
Files withNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC12TEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC11STEPHANICK JAMES5AMERICA ONLINE INC2LONGE MICHAEL R2
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35 records- 0199US7712053B2Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entryTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 4, 2010·383 cites·27 claims
- 0297US7679534B2Contextual prediction of user words and user actionsTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 16, 2010·448 cites·6 claims
- 0397US7319957B2Handwriting and voice input with automatic correctionTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 15, 2008·320 cites·25 claims
- 0496US8938688B2Contextual prediction of user words and user actionsBRADFORD ETHAN R·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 20, 2015·240 cites·15 claims
- 0596US7750891B2Selective input system based on tracking of motion parameters of an input deviceTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 6, 2010·136 cites·143 claims
- 0696US7720682B2Method and apparatus utilizing voice input to resolve ambiguous manually entered text inputTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 18, 2010·84 cites·26 claims
- 0795US7821503B2Touch screen and graphical user interfaceTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 26, 2010·48 cites·23 claims
- 0893US8381137B2Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entryTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 19, 2013·15 cites·34 claims
- 0993US6636162B1Reduced keyboard text input system for the Japanese languageAMERICA ONLINE INC·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 21, 2003·125 cites·19 claims
- 1092US7580829B2Apparatus and method for reordering of multiple language databases for text disambiguationTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 25, 2009·48 cites·15 claims
- 1191US8237681B2Selective input system and process based on tracking of motion parameters of an input objectSTEPHANICK JAMES·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 7, 2012·17 cites·25 claims
- 1291US8237682B2System and process for selectable input with a touch screenSTEPHANICK JAMES·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 7, 2012·15 cites·30 claims
- 1391US7966003B2Disambiguating ambiguous charactersTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 21, 2011·22 cites·34 claims
- 1489US8466896B2System and apparatus for selectable input with a touch screenSTEPHANICK JAMES·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 18, 2013·11 cites·30 claims
- 1589US6646573B1Reduced keyboard text input system for the Japanese languageAMERICA ONLINE INC·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 11, 2003·182 cites·56 claims
- 1685US7610194B2Dynamic database reordering systemTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 27, 2009·37 cites·29 claims
- 1784US9760560B2Correction of previous words and other user text input errorsNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 12, 2017·5 cites·18 claims
- 1882US8275362B2Disambiguating ambiguous charactersLONGE MICHAEL R·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 25, 2012·5 cites·20 claims
- 1976US9626355B2Contextual prediction of user words and user actionsNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 18, 2017·3 cites·11 claims
- 2074US9672818B2Updating population language models based on changes made by user clustersNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 6, 2017·5 cites·21 claims
- 2171US8583440B2Apparatus and method for providing visual indication of character ambiguity during text entrySTEPHANICK JAMES·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 12, 2013·5 cites·7 claims
- 2270US8990738B2Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entryNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 24, 2015·1 cites·22 claims
- 2369US8972905B2Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entryNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 3, 2015·1 cites·19 claims
- 2464US8456441B2Selective input system and process based on tracking of motion parameters of an input objectSTEPHANICK JAMES·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 4, 2013·1 cites·27 claims
- 2556US8782568B2Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entryNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 15, 2014·0 cites·19 claims
- 2655US2015161245A1Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entryNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2015·Application pending·0 cites
- 2754US8583087B2Disambiguating ambiguous charactersLONGE MICHAEL R·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 12, 2013·0 cites·20 claims
- 2848US10176803B2Updating population language models based on changes made by user clustersNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 8, 2019·0 cites·21 claims
- 2945US2015309984A1Learning language models from scratch based on crowd-sourced user text inputNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2014·Application pending·0 cites
- 3044US2015169537A1Using statistical language models to improve text inputNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2013·Application pending·0 cites
- 3139US2010122164A1Contextual prediction of user words and user actionsTEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 3238US2005192802A1Handwriting and voice input with automatic correctionFiled 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 3337US2006018545A1User interface and database structure for Chinese phrasal stroke and phonetic text inputZHANG LU·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 3436US2017344224A1Suggesting emojis to users for insertion into text-based messagesNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 3535US10073828B2Updating language databases using crowd-sourced inputNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 11, 2018·0 cites·18 claims
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