Appeal No. 2005-2282 Page 2
Application No. 09/505,807
Accordingly, as shown in Figure 5 of the appellants' specification, their invention
features a first queue (305) for storing data received from a data source (303).
Consumers (306) and (307) share the stored data. (Appeal Br. at 2.) The consumers
may include speech engines such as feature extraction engines, speech decoding
engines, and speaker identification/verification engines, as well as data compression
and decompression engines. (Spec. at 4.) A scheduler (302) controls the data source
and the consumers to, in turn, control the amount of data stored in and consumed from
the first queue. (Appeal Br. at 2.)
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claims.
1. A system for sharing data between multiple consumers, comprising:
a first queue for storing data;
a data source for outputting the data that is stored in the first
queue;
a plurality of consumers each sharing the data stored in the first
queue; and
a scheduler for managing the storage and consumption of the data
in the first queue and for controlling the data source and the plurality of
consumers to control the amount of data stored in and consumed from the
first queue.
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