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EP0966138A2 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

A portable communication device and a method of generating E-mail messages

Assignee: NCR International Inc
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Filing: 1999-06-21
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2019-06-21
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Abstract

Abstract A portable communication device (10) comprises a housing (11) which accommodates a number of components enabling the user to effect two-way communications including data transfer and personal communications. The components include a selectively operable smart card sensor (18), a display device (12), a mobile electronic data communications facility to receive and transmit data communications, and a data transaction processing means (20) in data communication with the smart card sensor, the display device and the data communications facility. Such a portable device (10) includes a microphone (13). The processing means is programmed for speech recognition and receives signals produced by the microphone. The processing mean, in response, produces text and the mobile data communications facility transmits the text to a remote site. The text may form part of an e-mail message sent by the device.

Inventors

  • 👤 Stephen J. Emmott
  • 👤 Graham I. Johnson
  • 👤 Sarah Woods

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-05 23:33
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q20/00; G06Q20/04; G06Q20/08; G06Q20/10; G06Q20/20; G06Q20/22; G06Q20/26; G06Q20/30; G06Q20/32; G06Q20/322; G06Q20/327; G06Q20/34; G06Q20/341; G06Q20/36; G06Q20/363; G06Q20/38; G06Q20/381; G07; G07F; G07F7/00; G07F7/08; G07F7/0866; G07F7/0873; G07F7/088; G07F7/0886; G07F7/10; G07F7/1008

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim 39 words
A portable device (10), characterised by a) a microphone (13), b) speech-recognition means (20) for receiving signals produced by the microphone and, in response, producing text, and c) a transmitter (32) for transmitting the text to a remote site.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 36 words
A portable device according to claim 1, characterised by display means (12) for displaying the text, and means responsive to a predetermined signal from a user to transmit data representing the text to the remote site.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 20 words
A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the text is transmitted via a wireless communication system.
Claim 4
Independent Claim 66 words
A method of generating e-mail messages, characterised by the steps of: a) receiving speech in a portable device (10), b) converting the speech to text, c) displaying the text, d) accepting a signal from a user indicating that the text should be transmitted, e) adding an e-mail address to the text, to form an e-mail message, and f) transmitting the e-mail message to a communication network.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 23 words
A method according to claim 4, characterised in that step (f) comprises transmitting the e-mail message, by wireless transmission, to the communication network.

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