Appeal No. 1997-2048
Application No. 08/175,326
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a voice command control and verification
system which uses the spoken command as both the command recognition and as the
identity verification. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 7, which is reproduced below.
7. A method of recognizing voice commands of authorized users of a
system, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a claim of identity from a person;
receiving an utterance of a system command from said person;
performing a speech recognition process on said utterance;
performing a speaker verification process on said utterance;
if said utterance is recognized as a command to said system and if
said claimed identity is verified based on said utterance, providing a signal
to said system indicating that a command has been presented by an
authorized user for execution.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Dowden et al. (Dowden) 5,181,237 Jan. 19, 1993
Naik et al. (Naik ‘720) 5,216,720 Jun. 01, 1993
Green 5,274,695 Dec. 28, 1993
Picone et al. (Picone) 5,293,452 Mar. 08, 1994
(Filed Jul. 01, 1991)
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