Session File Divide, Scramble, or Both for Manual or Automated Processing by One or More Processing Nodes

• US 20080270437A1
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Custom Speech USA, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Custom Speech USA, Inc.
• Inventors: Kahn, Jonathan, Stephen, Robert Lee
• Application Number:
  US11/848,148
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270437A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2308 Concurrency control transaction processing G06F9/466

Abstract

An apparatus comprising a session file and session file editor with main window and one or more document windows and annotation window and divide/merge and scramble/unscramble features. The session file may include text, audio, image, and other bounded divisions with source data divided into segments or other bounded divisions and other bounded divisions associated to original data. The session file may be derived from processing third-party application output. The session file editor displays text and other content, provides text selection capability and plays back audio of session files with audio-linked text as embedded content, and supports entry of text and password-protected document lock/unlock. The session file editor supports selection of a parent session file and divide, scramble, or merge of bounded divisions to create one or more child session files that may be processed at one or more nodes to create one or more processed child session files. The one or more processed child session files may undergo merge, unscramble, or both to create a reassembled session file with the same order of bounded divisions as the parent session file. The apparatus further comprises export of phrase-toned audio from a session file for transcription into delimited text for insert/replace into the original session file.

Claims

1. An system comprising:

a session file containing at least two bounded divisions;

a function for disassembling the session file;

a session file editor for editing at least one bounded division included in the session file; and

a function for reassembling the at least two bounded divisions back into the same order as the session file.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein each of the bounded divisions of the session file are selected from the group comprising:

(a) null, (b) audio and null text;

(c) audio and text associated with the audio;

(d) audio, an image associated with the audio, and null text;

(e) audio, an image associated with the audio and text associated with the audio; and

(f) null audio and text;

(g) null audio, null text and image; and

(h) null audio, text and image.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the function for disassembling the session file includes dividing the at least two bounded divisions of the session file into one of at least two child session files, the session file further including mapping data that maintains the relationship of the at least two bounded divisions between the session file and the at least two child session files.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the function for disassembling the session file further includes the scrambling of the at least two bounded divisions of the session file, wherein the mapping data further maintains the relationship between the at least two bounded divisions.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the function for reassembling back into the same order as the session file involves unscrambling the at least two bounded divisions and merging the at least two child session files back into the session file based on the mapping data.

6. The system of claim 5 further comprising means for precluding reassembly of the at least two bounded divisions without a password.

7. The system of claim 3 wherein the function for reassembling back into the same order as the session files involves merging the at least two child session files back into the session file based on the mapping data.

8. The system of claim 7 further comprising means for precluding reassembly of the at least two bounded divisions without a password.

9. The system of claim 2 wherein the function for disassembling the session file includes the scrambling of the at least two bounded divisions of the session file, wherein the mapping data maintains the relationship between the at least two bounded divisions.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the function for reassembling the least two bounded divisions back into the same order as the session file involves unscrambling the at least two bounded divisions based on the mapping data.

11. The system of claim 10 further comprising means for precluding reassembly of the at least two bounded divisions without a password.