Voice directed system and method configured for assured messaging to multiple recipients
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1. A wireless voice-enabled system comprising:
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a plurality of wireless terminal devices worn by or associated with individual users and in wireless communication with the server, the terminal devices having speech recognition capabilities;
the system being configured to send a message to a predetermined group of users operating an associated predetermined group of terminal devices;
the system further configured to provide assurance of message delivery to one or more terminal devices associated with the predetermined group of users and at least one of said terminal devices configured for generating a first acknowledgement to send to the server that the message has been received by the terminal device and further configured for generating a second acknowledgement to send to the server that the message has been handled by the associated user.
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Abstract
A communications system transmits messages via a wireless network to multiple users nearly simultaneously in real-time. Each user has a terminal that receives a message and plays the message for the user. The terminal may also wait for the user to verbally acknowledge the arrival of the message before continuing with its normally executing application. The sender of the message may track, for each intended recipient, the delivery of the message, the accessing of the message by the user, and the acknowledgement by the user that the message was understood.
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1. A wireless voice-enabled system comprising:
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a server; a plurality of wireless terminal devices worn by or associated with individual users and in wireless communication with the server, the terminal devices having speech recognition capabilities; the system being configured to send a message to a predetermined group of users operating an associated predetermined group of terminal devices; the system further configured to provide assurance of message delivery to one or more terminal devices associated with the predetermined group of users and at least one of said terminal devices configured for generating a first acknowledgement to send to the server that the message has been received by the terminal device and further configured for generating a second acknowledgement to send to the server that the message has been handled by the associated user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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- 7. The system of 1 wherein a terminal device is further configured, upon receiving a message, to transmit an alert to the associated user indicating that a message is available for the user.
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