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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Digital Voice Systems, Inc., Westford, MA (US);
Thomas Clark, Westford, MA (US);
John C. Hardwick, Acton, MA (US);
Digital Voice Systems, Inc., Westford, MA (US);
Abstract
Tone data embedded in a voice bit stream that includes frames of non-tone bits and frames of tone bits is detected and extracted by selecting a frame of bits, analyzing the selected frame of bits to determine whether it is a frame of tone bits, and, when it is a frame of tone bits, extracting tone data from it. Analyzing the selected frame includes comparing bits of the selected frame to sets of tone data to produce error criteria representative of differences between the selected frame and each of multiple sets of tone data. Based on the error criteria, a set of tone data that most closely corresponds to the bits of the selected frame is selected. When the error criteria corresponding to the selected set of tone data satisfies a set of thresholds, the selected frame is designated as a frame of tone bits.