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US 5,926,789 AGranted
Audio-based wide area information system
AssigneeBell Communications Research, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Barbara, Shamim A. Naqvi
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AssigneeBell Communications Research, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Barbara, Shamim A. Naqvi
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A wide area information system includes a client and at least one server on which audio data is stored. Audio data is selectively transferred to the client from the server by at least occasionally establishing a transfer connection between the server and the client. The transfer of audio data is controlled by user-selected commands and inputs that are entered via an input interface provided on the client. These commands and inputs are also transferred to the server via the at least occasionally established transfer connection between the client and the server. The audio data on the server is organized in page units that are cross-linked by way of hyperaudio links. The page units are characteristically searchable with the use of cyclically repeating directory pages of audible directory information. Finally, a data protocol is defined for enabling such an audio-based system.
A wide area information system comprising:
In a wide area information system having at least one server, each server having at least one audio page having audio data and means for recognizing sound commands, and a client, and wherein information is stored entirely in the form of the audio page and the system is navigated without the use of text or a visual display, a method for presenting the audio data to a user comprising the steps of:
A system for presenting audio information to a user comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.