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Audio system and method for coordinating tasks

  • US 9,642,184 B2
  • Filed: 01/23/2014
  • Issued: 05/02/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a hands free mobile communication device; and

    a controller programmed to cause the hands free mobile communication device to communicate audibly with a field operator performing field operations to instruct the operator regarding operations to be performed, receive oral communications from the operator, and to process the received oral communications and provide further instructions responsive to the received oral communications, wherein the controller further automatically recognizes oral commands from the operator and provides further instructions based on the state of a procedure being executed by an automated process control system, wherein the instructions further include one or more operations to be performed by the controller and wherein one or more of the instructions to the field operator is provided only after the one or more operations is performed by the controller.

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