Electronic secretary

• US 5,661,783 A
• Filed: 05/22/1996
• Issued: 08/26/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Offer Assis
• Original Assignee: Offer Assis
• Inventors: Assis, Offer
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): PRESSON, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US08/651,210
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: 379/67, 379/88, 379/89, 379/194, 379/69, 379/94, 379/265, 379/142, 370/81
• US Class Current: 379/88.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2749 Automatic dialling or redialling systems, e.g. on off-hook or redial on busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/656 for recording conversations

Abstract

An electronic secretary consisting of a telephone recorder electronically connected to a telephone street line and a computer connected to the telephone recorder. The computer contains software to digitize the recorded messages and has the capability to display the messages on a monitor and to print out one a printer. The computer also contains voice recognition software.

Claims

1. The method of operating an electronic secretary comprising the steps of:

a. a user receiving and recording by telephone caller messages and addresses on a recorder having a speaker and a microphone, said recorder being linked to a computer having a monitor;

b. playing back through said speaker caller messages stored in said recorder utilizing voice recognition computer software stored in said computer, digitizing the caller messages, and displaying the caller messages including caller addresses on said monitor, said user tagging important caller messages;

c. utilizing said microphone to record a greeting and other messages by said user, said messages being digitized and stored in said computer, and transmitting said user messages to selected callers using automatic dialing software;

d. responding automatically to tagged important caller messages utilizing computer call back including automatic dialing software to place telephone calls to the callers of tagged caller messages; and

f. printing out a journal of caller messages showing which caller messages have been responded to and which tagged caller messages have not been responded to.