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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:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dan Kikinis, Saratoga, CA (US);
Pascal Dornier, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William J Seiller, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Eloner I.P. Holdings Ltd., London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39580032 ; 395882 ;
Abstract
A digital assistant computer device has an audio input interface and a memory adapted to receive audio input of significant time extent, and to convert the input and store it as a digital sound file. The digital assistant in one embodiment has a CPU and bus, input and display apparatus, on-board memory, and a microphone and digital signal processor for accepting and converting audio input. In some such embodiments the on-board memory is flash memory