Remote Transcription and Reporting System and Method

• US 20120030315A1
• Filed: 07/26/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Harvey Schulman, Reesa Parker, William E. Weber
• Original Assignee: Harvey Schulman, Reesa Parker, William E. Weber
• Inventors: Parker, Reesa, Weber, William E., Schulman, Harvey
• Application Number:
  US13/190,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20120030315A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00

Abstract

A transcription and reporting system, including: at least one remote data capture device positioned in a specified location and configured or programmed to at least one of capture and process event data, and transmit at least a portion of the event data over at least one network; and at least one central data receiving interface configured or programmed to receive at least a portion of the event data transmitted by the at least one remote data capture device; wherein at least a portion of the event data is at least one of the following: testimony data, visual data, aural data, tactile data, chat data, environment data, location data, condition data, or any combination thereof. A transcription and reporting method and remote data capture device are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A transcription and reporting system, comprising:

at least one remote data capture device positioned in a specified location and configured or programmed to at least one of capture and process event data, and transmit at least a portion of the event data over at least one network; and

at least one central data receiving interface configured or programmed to receive at least a portion of the event data transmitted by the at least one remote data capture device;

wherein at least a portion of the event data is at least one of the following;

testimony data, visual data, aural data, tactile data, chat data, environment data, location data, condition data, or any combination thereof.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one remote data capture device comprises at least one of the following:

at least one computer, at least one video capture device, at least one audio capture device, at least one data sensor, or any combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one remote data capture device is a portable unit configured to be positioned in another specified location.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one network is at least one of the following:

a virtual private network, a secured network, an unsecured network, a local area network, a wide area network, or any combination thereof.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the specified location is at least one of the following:

a courtroom, a hearing room, a deposition room, a meeting room, an arbitration room, a mediation room, or any combination thereof.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmission of the at least a portion of the event data by the remote data capture device is substantially at the time of capture of the event data.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one data processing device in communication with the central data receiving interface and configured or programmed to facilitate the processing of at least a portion of the received event data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one data processing device is configured or programmed to provide the received event data to a user and receive input from the user, thereby providing transcription data.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the transcription data comprises textual data reflecting at least a portion of the event data.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one server configured to receive, store, and/or transmit at least a portion of the following data:

event data, processed data, transcription data, testimony data, visual data, aural data, tactile data, chat data, environment data, location data, condition data, or any combination thereof.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein at least a portion of the data is over the network to at least one authorized remote viewer.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one computer of the computer system configured or programmed to:

facilitate the processing of at least a portion of at least one of the following;

received event data, processed data, transcription data, testimony data, visual data, aural data, tactile data, chat data, environment data, location data, condition data, or any combination thereof; and

organize at least a portion of the processed data into organized data in the form of at least one of the following;

a report, a transcript, minutes, or any combination thereof

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one computer is further configured or programmed to store and/or transmit the organized data to a user.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a communication system configured to facilitate communication between at least one user located at the specified location and at least one user located at a remote location.

15. A remote data capture device positioned in a specific location, comprising:

at least one component configured to capture raw data from the surrounding environment;

at least one component configured to process the raw data; and

at least one component configured to transmit at least a portion of the processed data over at least one network.

16. The remote data capture device of claim 15, wherein the at least one component configured to capture raw data comprises at least one of the following:

at least one computer, at least one video capture device, at least one audio capture device, at least one data sensor, or any combination thereof

17. The remote data capture device of claim 15, wherein at least one of the components is at least partially positioned within a housing, and wherein the housing is portable and configured to be positioned in another specified location.

18. A computerized transcription and reporting method, comprising:

receiving, over a network, event data from a remote data capture device positioned in a specified location, wherein at least a portion of the event data is at least one of the following;

testimony data, visual data, aural data, tactile data, chat data, environment data, location data, condition data, or any combination thereof;

processing at least a portion of the received event data, thereby providing transcription data; and

storing at least a portion of the following data;

event data, processed data, transcription data, testimony data, visual data, aural data, tactile data, chat data, environment data, location data, condition data, or any combination thereof

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the specified location is at least one of the following:

a courtroom, a hearing room, a deposition room, a meeting room, an arbitration room, a mediation room, or any combination thereof.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the receipt of at least a portion of the event data captured by the remote capture device is substantially at the time of capture of the event data.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising transmitting at least a portion of the stored data to an online location on the network accessible by at least one authorized remote viewer.