Appeal No. 2001-0860
Application No. 08/772,047
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention is directed to a method and apparatus
for enabling existing application programs for operation in
speech recognition environments. As depicted in figure 2, a new
speech enabled component 60, which supports the same interface or
objects used by application program 50, is dynamically linked at
the runtime and replaces one of existing components 58
(specification, page 6). The new component receives input from
the speech recognition system and passes the input to application
program 50 using the existing interfaces (id.). Thus,
application program 50 receives the speech enabled input from the
speech recognition program without noticing that it was not from
a standard input device such as a keyboard or a mouse
(specification, page 7).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method, implemented in a computer system, for adding
speech capability to an existing application program comprising
the steps of:
providing said existing application program having a
plurality of object-oriented components including an input
component containing interface information that is loaded and
dynamically linked at runtime, said object-oriented input
component originally created having no speech capability;
creating a speech enabled object-oriented input component
for said existing application program by supplying an alternate
object-oriented dynamic library that supports the same interface
information in said input component;
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