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Digital dictation system having a central station that includes component cards for interfacing to dictation stations and transcription stations and for processing and storing digitized dictation segments

  • US 5,812,882 A
  • Filed: 10/18/1994
  • Issued: 09/22/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a digital dictation network of the type having a plurality of dictation stations, each capable of generating a sequence of digitized dictation signals that comprise a digitized dictation segment and a digitized identification signal containing information corresponding to said digitized dictation segment, and a plurality of transcription stations for transcribing said digitized dictation segments, a modular digital dictation system comprising:

  • a central station receiving said digitized diction signals from said dictation stations and transferring said digitized dictation segments to said transcription stations, said central station including component cards, each of said component cards providing at least one of a plurality of functions, said functions including interfacing said dictation stations and said transcription stations to said central station, processing said digitized dictation segments, transferring said digitized dictation signals between said component cards, and storing said digitized dictation segments in a memory device, wherein the number of said component cards connected to said central station by an operator of said central station determines the maximum number of said dictation stations and transcription stations that can be serviced by said central station, and wherein the number of said component cards connected to said central station can be varied by an operator of said central station.

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