Appeal No. 97-2541
Application 08/369,022
Morse, “Using Computer Conferencing to Improve Productivity in
the ‘90's,’ Proceedings of 1988 IEEE Engineering Management
Conference, PP. 177-186, 10/24/88.
Shelley et al. Patent No. 5,345,551 Sep. 6, 1994
(Shelley) (Filed Nov.
9,1992)
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 1-6 and 10-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Pate and Morse.
Claims 7-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Pate, Morse, and Shelley.
The Invention
The invention is directed to a system and method for
conducting a conference between multiple participants each
located at a workstation. Independent claims 1 and 11 are
reproduced below:
1. A method of textually recording at a workstation
spoken contributions to an audio conference, each participant
in the conference having an associated workstation, the
workstations being linked together by one or more networks,
the method comprising the steps of:
receiving local speech input at the workstation;
performing speech recognition on the local
speech input at the workstation to generate a local text
equivalent;
transmitting the local speech input to the other
2
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