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Network-based intercom system and method for simulating a hardware based dedicated intercom system

  • US 20030161455A1
  • Filed: 04/10/2002
  • Published: 08/28/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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25. A method for providing efficient, non-interruptive, distance communication by way of a network-based intercom system, said system integrated on a plurality of non-dedicated computers providing respective stations of a network, said system comprising software, said software comprising a dispatcher module in any one of said computers, said software further comprising an intercom module in each of said computers, the method comprising the steps of:

  • selectively placing a network-based intercom panel display and a message banner on a screen of each of said stations facilitated by said software control;

    maintaining a dispatcher list of all current stations in said network in said one of said computers;

    coordinating all current messages by computer readable instructions in said software in said dispatcher by;

    designating at least one station number to which each of said messages is sent, assigning at least one audible tone per message, said tone being unique to an addressee to whom said message is being sent, and routing all of said messages automatically when a final one of a predetermined number of options has been selected;

    selectively, automatically sounding said at least one audible tone at a respective one of said computers when one of said messages is sent to said one of said computers; and

    wherein said messages are automatically received on respective ones of said banners without addressee input, such that each of said messages is received in a non-interruptive manner and a notification of the arrival of a message is also received in the form of said audible tone, so that an addressee may selectively view the screen without stopping other activities.

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