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Title: Documents having executable attributes for
active mail and digitized speech to text conversion. United States
Patent US5528739
Inventors: Peter Lucas; Carolanne Fisher;
Jeffrey A. Senn
Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed,
having documents consisting of attributes. Each attribute contains
a name and a value. The value of an attribute may be executable script.
When a specified event occurs, an interpreter evaluates the script
and executes the resulting object code on a microprocessor. Examples
of the specified event are the document being referenced by a user
or the document being received by a remote node. The script itself
within the value of an attribute may be written by the user, or selected
by the user from a pre-packaged system library of script routines.
When the script is executed, it causes certain events to occur. Example
events include sending an acknowledgement message when the document
is received or read, sending digitized speech data from within the
document to a digital to analog converter to be played through a loudspeaker,
and sending digitized speech data from within the document to a speech
recognition engine which converts the digitized speech data into text,
and displays the text on a display device.
Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard,
MA)
