U.S. Philips Corporation

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Agere Systems Inc.

Piet B Hesdahl

Cornelis M Klik

Amiram Levi

Jeroen G Van Velden

Rene Maas

Sijtze Van Der Velde

Franciscus J L Dams

Gijsbertus M Besselsen

Remote control code filtering techniques are disclosed that are suitable for use in a remote control code relaying system. A portion of a received remote control code is compared with corresponding portions of stored remote control codes. The received remote control code can be filtered based on the comparison. The filtering can comprise outputting the received remote control code or a portion thereof, discarding the received remote control code, or adding a new remote control code to the stored remote control codes. The remote control code can be received from a network or from a hardware interface (e.g., which converts an electromagnetic remote control signal to the remote control code). The received remote control code can be output to a network or to a hardware interface for subsequent transmission of an electromagnetic remote control signal. Filtering can occur before or after the network.

Remote control code filtering used for relaying of remote control codes

A voice-controlled multi-station network has both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent speech recognition. Conditionally to recognizing items of an applicable vocabulary, the network executes a particular function. The method receives a call from a particular origin and executes speaker-independent speech recognition on the call. In an improvement procedure, in case of successful determination of what has been said, a template associated to the recognized speech item is stored and assigned to the origin. Next, speaker-dependent recognition is applied if feasible, for speech received from the same origin, using one or more templates associated to that station. Further, a fallback procedure to speaker-independent recognition is maintained for any particular station in order to cater for failure of the speaker-dependent recognition, while allowing reverting to the improvement procedure.

Method and device for activating a voice-controlled function in a multi-station network through using both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent speech recognition

A digital telephone communication system, for example ISDN or ESPABX, having an exchange and a plurality of user stations, the exchange communicating with each user station by at least a signalling (D) channel and a communication (B) channel of greater bandwidth. A service station is connected to the exchange in which is stored programming information for the user stations. Each user station includes a processor in which the telephone directory number of the service station is stored. Programming information available at the service station can be obtained by the processor of a user station by calling the service station, and is transmitted from the service station over the B channel. The service station may also provide unrequested programming information to any or all of the user stations over the B channels.

Digital telephone communication system including an exchange and a

Telecommunication systems such as PABXs are known which comprise ISDN digital linecards with a number of ISDN basic access interfaces. A telecommunication device is proposed comprising configurable ISDN digital linecards. To this end the linecards are provided with configuration means for independently configuring each ISDN basic access interface with respect to the other ISDN basic access interfaces as to mode setting and phantom power feeding to the transmission line to be coupled to the interface. The modes to be set are ISDN-NT or ISDN-TE mode. It is achieved that the PABX can be set to customer specifications without customer specific linecards having to be manufactured. Accordingly, no high manufacturing change-over costs are involved and no expensive extra documentation sets have to be drawn up, as would have been the case when many customer specific linecards would have to be manufactured.

Telecommunication system and a linecard

A method of establishing a data link between a first terminal, which is capable of communicating in accordance with a number of different data communication standards, and a plurality of further terminals which are each capable of communicating in accordance with a single data communication standard, whilst indicators (profile indicators) are extended to the dial numbers of the further terminals in the first terminal these indicators showing according to which data communication standard a specific further terminal is operating. If such an indicator is found with the telephone number when a link to a further terminal is established, the first terminal is automatically reprogrammed for subsequent operation in accordance with the data communication standard of the further terminal. The method can also be implemented when a terminal which is capable of communicating in accordance with a single data communication standard calls the first terminal, provided that the calling terminal transmits its call accompanied by its telephone number. Also a terminal for implementing the method.

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Piet B Hesdahl