Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc.

Digital Equipment Corporation

Christopher M Weikart

William D Goldenthal

Brian S Eberman

Robert A Iannucci

Kenneth F Alden

Debajit Ghosh

To maintain communications between first and second processing systems interconnected by a communications network, computer programing having first and second sets of instructions are stored at the first processing system. The computer programing is initialized at the first processing system to perform a task associated with the first set of instructions. In accordance with the second set of instructions, a first signal is automatically transmitted from the first processing system to the second processing system responsive to the initialization of the computer programming.

Configuring client software using remote notification

In a computerized method for messaging, a Web page includes an embedded tag specifying a message extension program. The Web page is requested from a Web server by a Web browser of a first client computer connected to the Web server computer by a communications network. The extension program corresponding to the message tag is retrieved. A multimedia message is recorded as digital signals in a file of the client computer using the extension program. The file is sent to a second client computer as an electronic mail message.

Browser-based electronic messaging

In a computerized method for collecting speech data, Web pages of client computers connected to the Internet are enabled to acquire speech signal and information characterizing the speech. The addresses of the enabled Web pages are stored in a list in a memory of a Web server computer. Based on predetermined criteria and the list, some of the enabled client computers are selected to acquire the speech signal and information. The acquired speech signal and information are transmitted to the server computer to generate, train, and evaluate acoustic-phonetic models.

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Christopher M Weikart