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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:
Jun. 11, 1996

Filed:

Mar. 17, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Steven P Russell, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Michael V McCusker, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Riverrun Technology, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 89 ; 379 96 ; 379 67 ; 381 43 ; 381 44 ; 395-2 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus for recording, categorizing, organizing, managing and retrieving speech information obtains a speech stream; stores the speech stream in at least a temporary storage; provides a visual representation of portions of the speech stream to the user; categorizes portions of a speech stream, with or without the aid of the visual representation, by user command and/or by automatic recognition of speech qualities; stores, in at least a temporary storage, structure which represents a categorized portions of the speech stream; and selectively retrieves one or more of the categorized portions of the Speech stream.


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