Appeal No. 1999-2343
Application 08/881,741
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention relates to a continuous-speech
recognition system implemented on a peripheral PCMCIA card
associated with a personal computer. PCMCIA executable modules
are stored on the personal computer host disk and are downloaded
to the PCMCIA card at run time. This allows the modules to be
easily modified without burning new firmware.
Claim 15 is reproduced below.
15. In a continuous-speech recognition system for the
recognition of words spoken by an individual, including the
steps of receiving input speech data, digitizing the speech
data, and analyzing the speech data by a speech recognition
module which compares the input speech data to previously
obtained templates and generates respective match scores
therefrom, the improvement wherein:
the continuous-speech recognition system is implemented
on a system consisting of a personal computer host with a
peripheral PCMCIA card; and,
PCMCIA executable modules are stored on a host disk
associated with said personal computer host and are
downloaded to said PCMCIA card at run time so that modules
may be easily modified at any time, and wherein PCMCIA
memory is accessible (read and write) by the personal
computer host.
The Examiner relies on the admitted prior art (APA) and on
following reference:
Kuroda et al. (Kuroda) 5,353,377 October 4, 1994
Claims 2-7 and 10-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Appellant's APA and Kuroda.
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