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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7414925 | System and method for providing telephonic voice response information related to items marked on physical documents The present invention discloses a system and method to telephonically access information related with items printed on a physical document, simply by touching with a finger items marked on the physical document or on any other physical surface. The system includes a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7369997 | Controlling speech recognition functionality in a computing device A system and method for use in computing systems that employ speech recognition capabilities is provided. Where recognized speech can be dictation and commands, one or more buttons may be used to change modes of said computing systems to accept spoken words as dicta... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366767 | Dictation system employing computer-to-computer transmission of voice files controlled by hand microphone A dictation system is formed of two personal computers connected by an e-mail system. A hand microphone with control switches is provided at one personal computer and a foot pedal is provided at the other personal computer. The hand microphone is used to generate a ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7218710 | Separately secured voice messages Apparatus and processes to allow voice messages to be individually and/or separately secured by a caller for playback only by an intended person or persons. The voice messages are separately secured with security information contained in a header associated with eac... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203288 | Intelligent routing of voice files in voice data management system A portable digital voice recorder is interfaced for data communication with a personal computer. The personal computer is connected by a data communication network with other devices such as other personal computers, a central dictation system, and/or a voice mail s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7035701 | Hand microphone interfaced to game controller port of personal computer A hand microphone and an adaptor module form an assembly which is a peripheral device for a personal computer. The hand microphone is used to control dictation functions to be carried out by the PC. Two separate analog control signal channels are output from the han... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7020478 | Server for controlling telecommunication and/or computer equipment using short messages of stationary or mobile telephones A server for controlling telecommunications and/or computer equipment having a digital transmission link to the equipment. The server can receive and interpret short messages (SMS or UUS messages) including commands and send the commands to the telecommunications or... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6975283 | Information communication system An example information communication system is provided in which a user has access to a data communication network through a communication device. Titles of content and summary of information on the communication network, for example, are displayed on a display scre... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6920425 | Visual interactive response system and method translated from interactive voice response for telephone utility A system, method, and computer readable medium storing a software program for translating a script for an interactive voice response system to a script for a visual interactive response system. The visual interactive response system executes the translated visual-ba... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6549614 | Method and apparatus for recording and managing communications for transcription A server located at a first location for recording and managing communications for transcription generated at a second location. Clients contact the server to store communications for transcription. The client is given the option to create a user configur... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6529450 | Hand microphone interfaced to game controller port of personal computer A hand microphone and an adaptor module form an assembly which is a peripheral device for a personal computer. The hand microphone is used to control dictation functions to be carried out by the PC. Two separate analog control signal channels are output f... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6175822 | Method and system for providing network based transcription services A method and system of providing network based transcription of free-form speech signals. A speech signal is recorded as a digital audio file in a storage medium and is then streamed over a data network to a client terminal for transcription. As the speec... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6002558 | Method of and apparatus for expanding functionality of vehicle cassette tape-player decks to permit dictation or other recording and automatic remote station relaying of the same Method and apparatus for expanding the functionality of vehicle cassette tape player decks to permit driver dictation or other recording and automatic remote station relaying of same through integration with cellular radio telephone apparatus and the like... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5966351 | System and method for changing the priority of voice mail messages within the recipient's mailbox A system and method for enabling the sender of electronic mail messages to access a recipient's mailbox to reprioritize the messages previously sent by the sender. The system searches the recipient's mailbox for messages sent by the sender and unread by t... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5956298 | Voice prompting and indexing dictation recorder A method for improving dictation recorders and systems by providing a means to separately and independently record and store and, during any later dictation recording session, separately retrieve and audibly replay multiple dictation-indexing voice-prompt... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5875436 | Virtual transcription system A computerized transcription system is based on a transcribe server that receives voice messages over long distance links, assigns jobs to technicians at remote locations, sends voice files to and receives transcribed work from the technicians, forwards t... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5828730 | Method and apparatus for recording and managing communications for transcription A server located at a first location for recording and managing communications for transcription generated at a second location. Clients contact the server to store communications for transcription. The client is given the option to create a user configur... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5818800 | Voice recording device having portable and local modes of operation An improved voice input peripheral operates in at least two modes, a portable mode (in which the peripheral records a user's voice in the peripheral's memory) and a "local mode" (in which the peripheral downloads the contents of its memory to a computer a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5587977 | Recording/reproducing apparatus having means to detect the exchange of an external memory A recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing an audio signal. The apparatus includes an external memory which can be mounted in and dismounted from the apparatus at will, and an internal buffer memory for temporarily storing the audio d... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5572592 | Remote control audio apparatus for hunters A remote control audio apparatus for use by hunters having the capability of either recording or reproducing predator calls, game calls and the like. Audio reproduction and/or recording apparatus is disposed within a weather resistant enclosure. A radio t... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5548566 | Dictation recording device having means for rapidly transmitting recorded dictation to a receiving device A portable voice recording device has a microphone for generating an electrical microphone signal representative of an acoustic speech signal, a memory device for storing a memory signal representative of the electric signal, and an output port controller... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5519808 | Transcription interface for a word processing station A transcription interface (10), connected to a general purpose digital computer (11) and a digital dictation recorder (20), for controlling various transcription functions and for automatically transferring information concerning dictation from the record... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5477511 | Portable documentation system Disclosed are means and method to implement a portable and fully functional audio data recording and processing system. Voice data is received, converted to digital representations, compressed and stored in solid state memories. Predefined and user define... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5459702 | Apparatus and method of improving the quality of recorded dictation in moving vehicles A dictation system is disclosed which includes circuitry for eliminating or substantially reducing the effect of uncontrollable ambient noise typically found in a passenger compartment of a moving vehicle. The system utilizes or incorporates, for example,... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5398220 | Portable dictation recording device having a mechanism for transmitting recorded dictation to a remote device The invention relates to a portable voice recording device. The device includes a microphone for generating an electrical signal representative of an acoustic speech signal. An analog to digital converter receives the electric signal from the microphone a... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5353259 | Voice message recovery system and method This invention relates to a communication system and method wherein messages are transmitted and stored in voice mail boxes. The system and method provide the ability on the part of an author to recover a message before access to the message by a recipien... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5319620 | Pocket dictation machine having a remote control device A pocket dictation machine (1), which is held in one hand in its dictation-recording mode and whose functions required in this mode can be started by a control member (23, 25), can also be operated in a second mode for the transcription of dictations, in ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5265075 | Voice processing system with editable voice files A central dictation system includes apparatus for prerecording standard voice files. Users of the system may select one of the prerecorded files. The selected file is copied to a new file, which the user is free to edit. The edited file is assigned to a t... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5247497 | Security systems based on recording unique identifier for subsequent playback In order to enable an authorized user of a secured system to detect unauthorized use of that system, the system records identifying information about the user (e.g., a sample of the user's voice) each time the user uses the system. The system also plays b... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5172405 | Answering machine arrangement An answering machine arrangement includes a recording medium for recording a message from outside with a passcode being previously recorded in a particular area of the recording medium, a device for reading the passcode from the recording medium when a "p... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5146439 | Records management system having dictation/transcription capability An integrated records management system having the capability to record and transcribe dictation. The system is particularly useful for the prompt and efficient management of patient's medical records. The system includes a digital dictation sub-system wi... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5134716 | Point of sale audio-visual advertising system A point of sale audio-visual advertising system is disclosed which has a central station and a plurality of outstations. The central station is generally located in a shop attached to service or filling stations which sell petroleum products such as gasol... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5008835 | Method and apparatus for storing and forwarding voice signals and generating replies A system for storing and forwarding voice signals. The system provides for central, digital storage of voice signals for later access by addressee system users. When addresses access a previously stored voice signal they have the capability to incremental... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5003574 | Voice capture system A voice capture system for use with a telephone switching system and transcribing terminals to record calling party generated information in predefined formats. The system digitizes and records messages generated by calling parties served by the telephone... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4975896 | Communications network and method The network is particularly useful in office communications. The network includes a plurality of transceiver units, each of which can be used as a telephone, or as a dictation terminal, or optionally as an automatic telephone answering machine. The networ... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4969136 | Communications network and method with appointment information communication capabilities The network is particularly useful in office communications. The network includes a plurality of transceiver units, each of which can be used as a telephone, or as a dictation terminal, or optionally as an automatic telephone answering machine. The networ... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4955051 | Dictating apparaus which is remotely controlled utilizing a push-button telephone A telephone dictating apparatus comprises DTMF signal converting means which converts DTMF signals given by depressing four push-buttons arranged in one of three longitudinal lines to four mode signals in the same order as the four push-buttons which have... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4905205 | Method for transmitting to a central recording device seismic data collected by acquisition apparatus distributed over the ground and a device for implementing same A method is provided for the transfer to a central recording device of data corresponding to signals received by a set of seismic sensors which have been sampled, digitized and stored by a plurality of data acquisition apparatus and a device for implement... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4860339 | Programmable telephone/dictation terminal and method of operating same A programmable telephone/dictation terminal that can be disposed in any one of several different modes of operation including, but not limited to, dictating information onto a recorder, communicating over a telephone network, recording incoming messages r... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4856050 | Telephone message retrieval system with improved message processor and retrieval console including auto-disabling playback switch A message retrieval system is disclosed which includes a plurality of answering machines, each connected to respected telephone line. Each answering machine records telephone responses on a respective message memory unit and all message memory units are c... | 08/08/1989 |
