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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Emil Hopner, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Stanley M Head, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 96 ; 379387 ;
Abstract
A user-orientated telephone instrument including high-fidelity speech encoding, encryption capability and many function presently provided by centralized call processing is described. Utilizing an ADPCM encoding process including forward error correction, a high quality relatively noise immune signal is provided. To the user, the instrument appears as a unique electronic telephone which offers many special services to facilitate communications with other people and with computers. Advanced features such as optional hands-off voice on/off-hook control, personal identification by voice print and remote chart presentation are provided.