The following is a list of Patents Pending that have been made public so far by the United States Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO). The USPTO makes a patent available publicly about 18 months from the date of filing. 

Patent App. No.	Title
20070174396	Email text-to-speech conversion in sender's voice
20080243386	Method and System for Communicating Arrival Notifications
20070178828	Integrated mobile communication and broadcast program reproduction device
20070081639	Method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication
20070180060	Messaging system with content-based dynamic menu generation
20070263796	Method and apparatus to provide data to an interactive voice response (IVR) system
20070206738	Secure voice communication channel for confidential messaging
20070249410	Techniques for tracking communication frequency across communication modalities
20070121893	Optimal call speed for call center agents
20070211879	Methods and systems for providing dynamic message content to callers on hold
20070280437	Dynamic speed dial number mapping
20080063174	Camping on a conference or telephony port
20070288562	Techniques for providing caller ID of participants in a conference call invitation
20080063181	Method of responding to an incoming voice call
20070250581	Techniques for alerting a user of unchecked messages before communication with a contact
20070263793	Techniques for marking and manipulating voice message segments through a telephone user interface
20070214041	System and method for location-based mapping of soft-keys on a mobile communication device
20080037762	Call centers with image or video based priority
20080037763	Queuing and routing telephone calls
20070280468	Automated system and method for handling human and caller queues
20080088698	Interaction based on facial recognition of conference participants
20070214040	Method for prompting responses to advertisements
20080043968	Forwarding one or more preferences during call forwarding
20080089489	Voicemail messaging with dynamic content
20080118046	Authorization to place calls by remote users
20070286354	Method and system for recalling voicemail messages
20080127231	Integrated out-of-office assistant reminder tool
20080167774	Ad-hoc mobile IP network for intelligent transportation system
20080151038	Video contact center facial expression analyzer module
20080159179	Scalable conference bridge
20080310398	Call priority based on audio stream analysis
20080226046	Integrated Alerting

 

Publications

Marcus Huber, Sanjeev Kumar, David McGee, and Sean Lisse. Integrating Authority, Deontics, and Communications within a Joint Intention Framework. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 14-18, 2007. (Short Paper).

 

Rajah A. Subramanian, Sanjeev Kumar, and Philip R. Cohen. Integrating Joint Intention Theory, Belief Reasoning, and Communicative Action for Generating Team-Oriented Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'06), July 16-20, Boston, MA, 2006

 

Silvia Rossi, Sanjeev Kumar, and Philip R. Cohen. Distributive and Collective Readings in Group Protocols. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30 - August 5, 2005. 

 

Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, and Rachel Coulston. Multimodal Interaction under Exerted Conditions in a Natural Field Setting. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2004), Pennsylvania, USA, October 14-15, 2004.

 

E. Kaiser, D. Demirdjian, A. Gruenstein, X. Li, J. Niekrasz, M. Wesson, and S. Kumar. A Multimodal Learning Interface for Sketch, Speak and Point Creation of a Schedule Chart (Demo Paper). In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2004), Pennsylvania, USA, October 14-15, 2004.

 

Marcus J. Huber, Sanjeev Kumar, and David R. McGee. A Suite of Performatives based upon Joint Intention Theory. In Proceedings of AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004), New York, USA, July 19, 2004.

 

Sanjeev Kumar and Philip R. Cohen. STAPLE: An Agent Programming Language Based on the Joint Intention Theory. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), ACM Press, New York, USA, July 19-23, 2004. (Short Paper).

 

Sanjeev Kumar, Marcus J. Huber, Philip R. Cohen, and David R. McGee. Toward a Formalism for Conversation Protocols Using Joint Intention Theory. Computational Intelligence Journal (Special Issue on Agent Communication Language), Brahim Chaib-draa and Frank Dignum (Guest Editors), Vol. 18, No. 2, pages 174-228, 2002.

 

Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, and Marcus J. Huber. Direct Execution of Team Specifications in STAPLE. In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), ACM Press, Bologna, Italy, July 15-19, 2002. (Short Paper).

 

Sanjeev Kumar, Marcus J. Huber, and Philip R. Cohen. Representing and Executing Protocols as Joint Actions. In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), ACM Press, Bologna, Italy, July 15-19, 2002.

 

Marcus J. Huber, Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, and David R. McGee. A Formal Semantics for Proxy Communicative Acts. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-2001), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 1-3, 2001.

 

Sanjeev Kumar, Marcus J. Huber, David R. McGee, Philip R. Cohen, and Hector J. Levesque. Semantics of Agent Communication Languages for Group Interaction. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'00), American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press, Austin, Texas, July 30-August 3, 2000, pages 42-47.

 

Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, and Hector J. Levesque. The Adaptive Agent Architecture: Achieving Fault-Tolerance Using Persistent Broker Teams. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS 2000), Boston, MA, USA, July 7-12, 2000, pages 159-166.

 

Sanjeev Kumar and Philip R. Cohen. Towards a Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent System Architecture. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), ACM Press, Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000, pages 459-466.