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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Inventors:

Paul A Ewer, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Nicholas K Eisner, Ben Lomond, CA (US);

Ian J Gould, Malmesbury, GB;

Robert J Kelly, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/02 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); H04M 3/493 (2006.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/02 (2013.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04M 3/4936 (2013.01);
Abstract

Headsets having corresponding audio adapters and methods comprise: a microphone configured to generate analog audio for a voice call; an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the analog audio to digital audio; a voice activity detector configured to detect speech in the digital audio; a processor configured to i) determine a temporal characteristic of the speech, and ii) generate a message based on the temporal characteristic of the speech and a temporal characteristic of the voice call; and a transmitter configured to transmit the message.


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