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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2011
Applicant:
Edwin Basart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edwin Basart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
ShoreTel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A telephone comprising one or more speaker apertures, a microphone indicator disposed on a user-facing surface of the telephone, and one or more microphone apertures disposed proximate to the microphone indicator on a surface of the telephone other than the user-facing surface, where at least one of the microphone apertures is operable to allow audio to pass from the user to a microphone disposed in the telephone, and where the microphone indicator is arranged to direct the user to speak in a direction toward at least one of the microphone apertures.