Appeal No. 1998-0610
Application 08/584,726
The appellants have represented that in this appeal, all claims stand or fall together.
(Br. at 5).
The Invention
The claimed invention is directed to a communication system wherein digitally
coded textual data items are transmitted for reception by receivers which include audio
conversion means for regenerating analog speech signals corresponding to the
transmitted data items. Each data item includes digitally coded speech allophone
information, special codes for inflection, and one or more index terms representing the
content.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A broadcast communications system, comprising:
at a first physical location, a transmitting means, including a source of
digitally coded textual data items, each digitally coded textual data item carrying both
digitally coded speech allophone information and special codes for inflection to be
transmitted and one or more digitally coded index terms relating to the subjects of that
item’s information,
means for broadcasting said items in a sequence via a transmission
medium;
at a plurality of different physical locations, a plurality of receiving means,
each operable by a different user, and including
detecting means for accepting said sequence of items,
profile means for storing a profile comprising certain ones of said index
terms selected by said user, said profile being potentially different for each of said
receiving means,
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