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Method of controlling a personal communication system    
United States Patent5577041   
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Inventor(s)Sharma; Raghu (North Oaks, MN); Davis; Jeffrey P. (Ham Lake, MN); Gunn; Timothy D. (Mounds View, MN); Li; Ping (New Brighton, MN); Maitra; Sidhartha (Saratoga, CA); Thanawala; Ashish (Saratoga, CA); Young; Steve (Saratoga, CA)
AbstractA personal communications system is described which includes components of software and hardware operating in conjunction with a personal computer. The user interface control software operates on a personal computer, preferably within the Microsoft Windows.RTM. environment. The software control system communicates with hardware components linked to the software through the personal computer serial communications port. The hardware components include telephone communication equipment, digital signal processors, and hardware to enable voice, fax and data communication with a remote site connected through a standard telephone line. The functions of the hardware components are controlled by control software operating within the hardware component and from the software components operating within the personal computer. The major functions of the system are a telephone function, a voice mail function, a fax manager function, a multi-media mail function, a show and tell function, a terminal function and an address book function. The telephone function allows the present system to operate, from the users perspective, as a conventional telephone using either hands-free, headset or handset operation. The telephone function is more sophisticated than a standard telephone in that the present system converts the voice into a digital signal which can be processed with echo cancellation, compressed, stored as digital data for later retrieval and transmitted as digital voice data concurrent with the transfer of digital information data.
   














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Method of controlling a personal communication system
Inventor     Sharma; Raghu (North Oaks, MN); Davis; Jeffrey P. (Ham Lake, MN); Gunn; Timothy D. (Mounds View, MN); Li; Ping (New Brighton, MN); Maitra; Sidhartha (Saratoga, CA); Thanawala; Ashish (Saratoga, CA); Young; Steve (Saratoga, CA)
Owner/Assignee     Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. (Mounds View, MN)
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Publication Date     November 19, 1996
Application Number     08/488,183
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Filing Date     June 7, 1995
US Classification     370/271 370/465 370/477 379/88.01 379/88.07 379/88.1 379/88.13 379/88.17 379/88.23 379/88.28 379/93.11 379/908
Int'l Classification     H04M 011/00
Examiner     Safourek; Benedict V.
Assistant Examiner     Nguyen; Chau T.
Attorney/Law Firm     Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.
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Parent Case     This is a divisional application under 37 CFR .sctn. 1.60 of Ser. No. 08/289,294, filed on Aug. 11, 1994, entitled COMMUNICATION MODULE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, U.S. Pat. No. 5,471,470, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/002,467, filed on Jan. 8, 1993 entitled COMPUTER-BASED MULTIFUNCTION PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, U.S. Pat. No. 5,452,289.
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USPTO Field of Search     370/60 370/79 370/60.1 370/80 370/94.1 370/94.2 370/32.1 370/118 379/88 379/89 379/93 379/96 379/97 379/100 379/201 395/155 395/156 395/2.3 395/2.31
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