Method and apparatus for initiating telephone call from a mobile device
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Abstract
An information apparatus comprising information acquisition resources, distribution resources, association resources and control coordinating resources. The control coordinating resources coordinate the activations of the acquisition and association resources. The association resources provide an association annotation to the distribution resources, and the distribution resources distribute responsive thereto. The association annotation is based on at least one of the information acquired by the acquisition resources or directives provided in accordance with prevailing configuration of the apparatus. The apparatus also comprises one or more of: (a) processing resources, (b) administration resources, the administration resources (comprising at least one of timer facilities, prompting facilities, and configuration facilities), and (c) exploiting resources (to which the distribution resources distribute all or part of the information and the association annotation). The configuration facilities support (i) a shared relevance space, the shared relevance space supporting enhanced coordination between the acquisition and distribution resources and (ii) tracking of user'"'"'s use of the apparatus.
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35 Claims
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21. A method of initiating a phone call, comprising:
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providing a mobile telephone having a display, a memory for storing phone numbers, a processor for providing speech recognition capability, a microphone, a dialer means, and a speaker;
displaying at least one textual representation, the representation being associated with a phone number stored in the memory;
receiving a voice command communicated via the microphone;
processing the voice command to select a phone number to be dialed;
communicating an audio representation of the phone number through the speaker; and
initiating a telephone call. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A hand-held information apparatus for initiating telephone calls, comprising:
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an information acquisition resource including a microphone for receiving voice commands and audio data;
an administration resource including a memory coupled with the information acquisition resource for storing the audio data;
a processing resource coupled to the information acquisition resource for running a voice recognition application that process the voice commands; and
a distribution resource coupled to the processing resource for dialing telephone calls in response to the voice commands. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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