System for transmitting and receiving aural information and modulated data
First Claim
1. In combination for transmitting modulated data and aural information,first means for providing modulated data having individual characteristics,second means for providing aural information,controller means operative at the position of the first and second means to identify the aural information from the second means and the modulated data from the first means and to identify the characteristics of such modulated data,third means responsive to the identification from the controller for transforming the aural information and for processing the modulated data in accordance with the characteristics of such modulated data, andpacketizer means for packetizing individual ones of the transformed aural information and the processed modulated data and for labelling the packetized information to identify whether the information is aural or modulated data and, if modulated data, the characteristics of such modulated data.
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Abstract
Modulated data information having an individual one of different baud rates and aural information are converted at a transmitter from analog to digital form. A controller separately identifies the digitized aural and modulated data information and, if modulated data, identifies the baud rate of such modulated data. The aural information is separately transformed. For modulated data, the information is separately processed in accordance with the different baud rates. The individual ones of aural and modulated data are then introduced to a common line for packetizing. The beginning of each packet is labelled to identify whether the packet contains aural information (such as voice or music) or modulated data (such as modem or facsimile), and, if modulated data, the particular baud rate of such information. An individual code identifies the end of each packet. The packetized information is then multiplexed in a common bus with other packetized aural and data information. At a receiver connected to the common bus, the multiplexed information is separated into the different packets. The packetized information representing individual ones of aural information (such as voice or music) and modulated data (such as music or facsimile information) is separated, in accordance with the packet labels, into aural information and modulated data and, if modulated data, is introduced to an individual one of different modulators each operative at an individual one of the different baud rates. The aural information is then transformed substantially to its original form at the transmitter and the modulated data is separately processed in accordance with the different baud rates.
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1. In combination for transmitting modulated data and aural information,
first means for providing modulated data having individual characteristics, second means for providing aural information, controller means operative at the position of the first and second means to identify the aural information from the second means and the modulated data from the first means and to identify the characteristics of such modulated data, third means responsive to the identification from the controller for transforming the aural information and for processing the modulated data in accordance with the characteristics of such modulated data, and packetizer means for packetizing individual ones of the transformed aural information and the processed modulated data and for labelling the packetized information to identify whether the information is aural or modulated data and, if modulated data, the characteristics of such modulated data.
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7. In combination for transmitting modulated data and aural information,
first means for providing modulated data and information identifying the characteristics of such modulated data, second means for providing aural information controller means responsive to the modulated data and to the voice information for identifying whether the information is aural or modulated data and, if modulated data, the characteristics of such modulated data, third means operatively coupled to the controller means for transforming the aural information, fourth means operatively coupled to the controller means for processing the modulated data, a common line, and fifth means for providing for a transmission through the common line of the aural information transformed by the third means and the modulated data processed by the fourth means.
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13. In combination for transmitting facsimile and aural information,
first means for providing facsimile information and for identifying the baud and bit rates at which the facsimile information is provided, second means for providing aural information, controller means responsive to the aural information and the facsimile information for identifying between the aural information and the facsimile information and, if facsimile information, the baud and bit rates of the facsimile information without interrupting the operation of the first and second means, third means operatively coupled to the controller means for transforming the aural information when the aural information is identified by the controller means, fourth means constructed to process the facsimile information in accordance with the baud and bit rates of the facsimile information when the facsimile information is identified by the controller means, and fifth means for providing a transmission of the transformed aural information and the processed facsimile information.
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19. In combination at a receiver for responding to aural information and modulated data transmitted on a common line where the information is in packets and the packets are labelled to represent aural information or modulated data and, if modulated data, to represent the characteristics of such modulated data and where the aural information has been transformed and the modulated data has been processed,
first means for depacketizing the packetized information, second means for detecting the labelling of the depacketized information to identify whether the depacketized information is aural information or modulated data and, if modulated data, the characteristics of such modulated data, third means for operating upon the transformed aural information to recover the aural information before transformation, fourth means for operating upon the processed modulated data to recover the modulated data before processing, and fifth means operatively coupled to the second means for activating the individual one of the third means and the fourth means in accordance with the detection of the labelling by the second means to obtain a recovery of the voice information and the modulated data.
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23. In combination,
first means for selectively providing aural information and modulated data and, if modulated data, the characteristics of such modulated data, controller means responsive to the aural information and modulated data for separating the aural information and modulated data and, if modulated data, for identifying the characteristics of such modulated data, second means operatively coupled to the controller means for transforming the aural information, third means operatively coupled to the controller means for processing the modulated data in accordance with the characteristics of such modulated data, a common line, and fourth means in the common line for labelling the transformed aural information and the processed modulated data to identify whether the information is aural information or modulated data and, if modulated data, to identify the characteristics of the modulated data.
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