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US 11,895,257 B1Granted
Text assisted telephony on wireless device method and apparatus
AssigneeUltratec, Inc.
InventorsChristopher R. Engelke, Kevin R. Colwell, Troy Vitek
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Abstract
A communication system and method usable to facilitate communication between a hearing user and an assisted user. In particular, the system employs a wireless portable tablet or other portable electronic computing device linked to a captioning enabled phone as a remote interface for that phone, thereby providing an assisted user with more options, more freedom, and improved usability of the system.
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A computer-implemented method to provide captions, the method comprising:
- receiving audio data at a first device from a second device over a first network, the audio data received by the second device over a second network from a remote device that generates the audio data, the second network is a different type of network than the first network;
- presenting, by the first device, audio based on the audio data;
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- directing the audio data to a transcription system over a third network, wherein the transcription system is configured to generate captions of the audio data.
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A computer-implemented method to provide captions, the method comprising:
- at a first device including a display screen and an audio output device,
- (i) receiving audio data from a second device over a first wireless network, the audio data received by the second device over a second network from a remote device that generates the audio data, the second network is a different type of network than the first network;
- (ii) broadcasting audio via the audio output device based on the audio data;
- (iii) directing the audio data to a transcription system over a third network that is of a different type than the first network and the second network, wherein the transcription system is configured to generate captions of the audio data;
- (iv) receiving the captions from the transcription system over the third network;
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- (v) presenting the captions via the display screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.