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Alexander Mark Franz
Also filed as: FRANZ ALEXANDER · FRANZ ALEXANDER M · FRANZ ALEXANDER MARK
35 granted patents·3 pending applications·4,134 citations·filing 1994–2018
99Inventor score
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38 records- 0198US10885285B2Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed modelsGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 5, 2021·42 cites·21 claims
- 0298US7027987B1Voice interface for a search engineGOOGLE INC·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 11, 2006·356 cites·20 claims
- 0397US7366668B1Voice interface for a search engineGOOGLE INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 29, 2008·83 cites·14 claims
- 0497US6282507B1Method and apparatus for interactive source language expression recognition and alternative hypothesis presentation and selectionSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 28, 2001·379 cites·39 claims
- 0596US6278968B1Method and apparatus for adaptive speech recognition hypothesis construction and selection in a spoken language translation systemSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 21, 2001·304 cites·44 claims
- 0694US6266642B1Method and portable apparatus for performing spoken language translationSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 24, 2001·242 cites·50 claims
- 0794US6223150B1Method and apparatus for parsing in a spoken language translation systemSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 24, 2001·239 cites·36 claims
- 0894US5677835AIntegrated authoring and translation systemCATERPILLAR INC·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 14, 1997·247 cites·44 claims
- 0993US10089304B2Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed modelsGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 2, 2018·8 cites·20 claims
- 1093US6393388B1Example-based translation method and system employing multi-stage syntax dividingSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted May 21, 2002·84 cites·14 claims
- 1193US6356865B1Method and apparatus for performing spoken language translationSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 12, 2002·229 cites·12 claims
- 1293US6243669B1Method and apparatus for providing syntactic analysis and data structure for translation knowledge in example-based language translationSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 5, 2001·212 cites·52 claims
- 1392US8583636B1Systems and methods for determining a quality of provided itemsFRANZ ALEXANDER MARK·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 12, 2013·17 cites·20 claims
- 1492US8296123B2Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed modelsTHAYER IGNACIO E·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 23, 2012·37 cites·85 claims
- 1592US7386438B1Identifying language attributes through probabilistic analysisGOOGLE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 10, 2008·252 cites·27 claims
- 1692US6163785AIntegrated authoring and translation systemCATERPILLAR INC·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 19, 2000·200 cites·42 claims
- 1791US8380502B1Voice interface for a search engineGOOGLE INC·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 19, 2013·18 cites·27 claims
- 1891US6442524B1Analyzing inflectional morphology in a spoken language translation systemSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 27, 2002·191 cites·47 claims
- 1991US6330530B1Method and system for transforming a source language linguistic structure into a target language linguistic structure based on example linguistic feature structuresSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 11, 2001·179 cites·42 claims
- 2090US7506254B2Predictive conversion of user inputGOOGLE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 17, 2009·22 cites·12 claims
- 2186US8515752B1Voice interface for a search engineFRANZ ALEXANDER MARK·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 20, 2013·14 cites·20 claims
- 2286US8065296B1Systems and methods for determining a quality of provided itemsFRANZ ALEXANDER MARK·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 22, 2011·36 cites·15 claims
- 2386US6721697B1Method and system for reducing lexical ambiguitySONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 13, 2004·111 cites·27 claims
- 2485US6374224B1Method and apparatus for style control in natural language generationSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 16, 2002·119 cites·21 claims
- 2585US6161083AExample-based translation method and system which calculates word similarity degrees, a priori probability, and transformation probability to determine the best example for translationSONY CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 12, 2000·111 cites·27 claims
- 2684US5995920AComputer-based method and system for monolingual document developmentCATERPILLAR INC·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 30, 1999·112 cites·26 claims
- 2783US7555428B1System and method for identifying compounds through iterative analysisGOOGLE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 30, 2009·41 cites·15 claims
- 2883US6778949B2Method and system to analyze, transfer and generate language expressions using compiled instructions to manipulate linguistic structuresSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 17, 2004·111 cites·52 claims
- 2982US9619465B2Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed modelsGOOGLE INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 11, 2017·4 cites·18 claims
- 3075US6529865B1System and method to compile instructions to manipulate linguistic structures into separate functionsSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 4, 2003·73 cites·30 claims
- 3173US8768700B1Voice search engine interface for scoring search hypothesesFRANZ ALEXANDER MARK·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 1, 2014·3 cites·20 claims
- 3273US8738357B2Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed modelsGOOGLE INC·Filed 2012·Granted May 27, 2014·2 cites·36 claims
- 3364US6928448B1System and method to match linguistic structures using thesaurus informationSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 9, 2005·53 cites·88 claims
- 3451US8676790B1Methods and systems for improving search rankings using advertising dataHENZINGER MONIKA·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 18, 2014·2 cites·44 claims
- 3551US7302645B1Methods and systems for identifying manipulated articlesGOOGLE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 27, 2007·1 cites·22 claims
- 3646US2004167771A1Method and system for reducing lexical ambiguityFiled 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 3745US2005149499A1Systems and methods for improving search qualityGOOGLE INC A DELAWARE CORP·Filed 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 3842US2002198713A1Method and apparatus for perfoming spoken language translationFiled 2001·Application pending·0 cites
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