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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:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshiaki Komatsu, Yokkaichi, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ;
Abstract
A communication system having a client device, a processing server and a contents server. When the client device makes a request for textual information to the processing server, the processing server searches for and receives the requested textual information from the contents server. Then, the processing server generates both abridged textual information and voice information from the received textual information, and transmits the abridged textual information to the client device. The client device requests the voice information, which corresponds to an unabridged version of the textual information, at the user's request.