| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D405793 |
Paging message device |
February 16, 1999 |
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| D364865 |
Text telephone |
December 5, 1995 |
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| 7555104 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
June 30, 2009 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most |
| 7319740 |
System for text assisted telephony |
January 15, 2008 |
| An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line wh |
| 7164753 |
Real-time transcription correction system |
January 16, 2007 |
| A voice transcription system employing a speech engine to transcribe spoken words, detects the spelled entry of words via keyboard or voice to invoke a database of common words attempting to complete the word before all the letters have been input. This database is separate from the |
| 7006604 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
February 28, 2006 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most |
| 7003082 |
System for text assisted telephony |
February 21, 2006 |
| An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line wh |
| 6934366 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
August 23, 2005 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most |
| 6885731 |
Captioned telephone with emergency access feature |
April 26, 2005 |
| Captioned telephone are devices intended to provide text captions to persons needing assistance with telephone communications. Captioned telephones provide text by using the services of a relay interposed between the assisted user and the hearing user, the relay providing the caption |
| 6882707 |
Method and apparatus for training a call assistant for relay re-voicing |
April 19, 2005 |
| A training method and apparatus to train a call assistant to operate a telephone relay system for the hearing impaired that uses a re-voicing technique to produce near real-time transcription of a telephone conversation for display on a caption telephone or other device. The inventio |
| 6748053 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
June 8, 2004 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing |
| 6603835 |
System for text assisted telephony |
August 5, 2003 |
| An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while |
| 6594346 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
July 15, 2003 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most |
| 6567503 |
Real-time transcription correction system |
May 20, 2003 |
| An editing system for real-time remote transcription, such as may be used by deaf or hearing impaired individuals, displays transcribed text on a screen prior to transmission so that a human call assistant may identify words being held in a buffer by their spatial location on the screen |
| 6549611 |
Text enhanced telephony |
April 15, 2003 |
| A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET dev |
| 6510206 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
January 21, 2003 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing |
| 6493426 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
December 10, 2002 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most |
| 6307921 |
Text enhanced telephony |
October 23, 2001 |
| A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET dev |
| 6233314 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
May 15, 2001 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing |
| 6075842 |
Text enhanced telephony |
June 13, 2000 |
| A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET dev |
| 6075841 |
In-line text display for telephone terminal employing data filtering |
June 13, 2000 |
| A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, in which an in-line text display is inserted in the telephone line before a standard telephone. The in-line display blocks text related digital communications signals to the standard telephone and decode |
| 5978654 |
Alphanumeric paging entry system |
November 2, 1999 |
| A low cost alphanumeric paging entry and page receiving device for entering alphanumeric messages remotely from a telephone and receiving pages via radio frequency signals. The device is designed so that both page reception and alphanumeric page entry can be provided using substantially |
| 5974116 |
Personal interpreter |
October 26, 1999 |
| An electronic personal interpreter is provided so that deaf or hard of hearing persons can use on-the spot interpreting to converse with hearing persons who do not know sign language. The personal interpreter uses a telephone connection to a telephone relay system for the deaf to perform |
| 5909482 |
Relay for personal interpreter |
June 1, 1999 |
| A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing |
| 5809425 |
Gateway for low cost alphanumeric paging entry system |
September 15, 1998 |
| A low cost alphanumeric paging entry system is based on a low cost paging (LCP) device to enter paging messages remotely from any telephone. The device is designed to minimize the needs for user training and is intended for intuitive operation by the user. The device uses simplex com |
| 5724405 |
Text enhanced telephony |
March 3, 1998 |
| A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET dev |
| 5604786 |
Telephone with unified features for hearing and deaf users |
February 18, 1997 |
| A unified TDD and telephone incorporate intelligent mode switching to permit users of either device to use the integrated unit with the other features remaining largely invisible by sensing various signals including the removal of the handset or the turning on and off of the TDD device t |
| 5581593 |
Combination telephone and alphanumeric entry device |
December 3, 1996 |
| A combined telephone AED simply integrates the function of a telephone and an alphanumeric entry device required for alphanumeric paging into a single unit by making use of the handset cradle switch to reset the unit from page mode to telephone mode whenever the handset is lifted. Paging |
| 5517548 |
Telecommunication device operating under an enhanced TDD protocol |
May 14, 1996 |
| A telecommunication device for the deaf is designed to operate under an enhanced TDD communication protocol. The TDD is capable of communicating with conventional TDDs operating under normal Baudot/Weitbrecht communications, but is also capable of communicating with a similarly enhan |
| 5432837 |
Telecommunication device for the deaf with automatic transmission capability |
July 11, 1995 |
| A telecommunication device for the deaf is designed to operate under an enhanced TDD communication protocol. The TDD is capable of communicating with conventional TDDs operating under normal Baudot/Weitbrecht communications, but is also capable of communicating with a similarly enhan |
| 5351288 |
Voice bridge for a relay center |
September 27, 1994 |
| A voice bridge for a telephone relay for the hearing impaired is constructed so as to pass voice data to and/or from a user who is capable of either speaking or hearing voice. The voice bridge is capable of passing voice communication between a pair of telephone lines while excluding |
| 5327479 |
Telecommunication device for the deaf with interrupt and pseudo-duplex capability |
July 5, 1994 |
| A telecommunication device for the deaf operates under conventional Baudot communication protocol, but has enhanced features enabling it to handle interrupts either from a conventional or a similar TDD. The improved TDD is also capable of pseudo-duplex communication with a similar TDD in |
| 5325417 |
Telecommunication device for the deaf with automatic self-identification |
June 28, 1994 |
| A telecommunication device for the deaf includes a self-identification sequence which automatically commences upon the initiation of communication with the device. The self-identification sequence consists of a series of characters which may be separated by pauses and the device list |
| 5081673 |
Voice bridge for relay center |
January 14, 1992 |
| A relay center has a first telephone line (12) and a second telephone line (14). Data signals may be carried on the first telephone line (12) and received into a modem (20). A terminal or computer (22) then receives the data signals and converts the signals into readable characters viewa |
| 4959847 |
Telecommunications device with automatic code detection and switching |
September 25, 1990 |
| A telecommunications device automatically detects the code used by a second telecommunications device to which the devices are linked to transmit and receive therebetween. After the telecommunications device has been set to transmit and receive in code which has been detected, the te |
| 4897868 |
Public terminal receptacle |
January 30, 1990 |
| A public terminal receptacle for containing, protecting, and allowing a user access to a computer terminal, telecommunications device for the deaf, or another type of terminal which is telephonically linked and physically adjacent to a public telephone through which the terminal may |
| 4777469 |
Public terminal receptacle |
October 11, 1988 |
| A public terminal receptacle for containing, protecting, and allowing a user access to a computer terminal, telecommunications device for the deaf, or another type of terminal which is telephonically linked and physically adjacent to a public telephone through which the terminal may |
