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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:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1999
Applicants:
John G. Savage, Fife, GB;
Jonathan S. Black, Dundee, GB;
Kenneth A. Nicoll, Dundee, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 99/00 (2006.01); G06Q 40/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A self-service terminal, such as an ATM (), comprises a speech generator () and loudspeaker () for producing natural language operating instructions for a user, and a user interface () permitting the user to interact with the terminal () in response to the spoken instructions. The user interface may include a microphone () and a speech recognition module ().