Appeal No. 1998-0905
Application 08/284,061
logical connection of the computer to any one or more of a
variety of different types of data networks, including analog
telephone, ISDN, PBX, and the like. Data received at this
device is presented to a serial driver, which disassembles
different streams of data for presentation to appropriate data
managers, such as the operating system of the host computer, a
service provider, or an application program. A device handler
also presents data and commands from the data managers to a
real-time data processing engine that can be used for a
variety of applications such as voice recognition, speech
compression, and fax/data modems. This real-time engine can
be shared by any application program running on the host
computer. This invention enables any arbitrary type of data,
such as voice, facsimile, multimedia, and the like, which is
transmitted over any type of communications network, to be
handled with any type of real-time engine.1
Independent claim 1 is as follows:
1. A signal processing system for providing a plurality
of realtime services to and from a number of independent
client applications and devices, said system comprising:
1 See page 3 of the specification.
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