Distributed hardware sharing for speech processing

Details Distributed hardware sharing for speech processing Distributed hardware sharing for speech processing

1998-11-10

2001-12-04

Dorvil, Richemond (Department: 2741)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Application

C704S270000, C704S275000, C704S251000, C709S241000, C705S002000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06327568

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method for operating a multistation intercommunication system provided with human speech recognition. U.S. Pat. No. 5,471,521 describes a system in which a first computer handles an incoming telephone call, whereas a second computer performs the desired technical processing. Various server classes may be present. The present inventor has recognized a need in mass communication systems that accommodate many distributed subscribers, to allocate available facilities in an efficient manner, whilst recognizing the various levels in speech processing complexity and the frequent change of processing dynamics between various such levels on short notice. Further, the system should provide high reliability, and therefore be able to reconfigure its topology automatically.
SUMMARY TO THE INVENTION
In consequence, amongst other things, it is an object of the present invention to improve distributed speech processing methods in such manner that computer-intensive tasks will be allocated on a dynamic basis to an instantaneously best suited facility, so that overall processing throughput would be optimized and local overload avoided to a high degree, and such against only a limited amount of overhead. Now therefore, according to one of its aspects the invention is characterized as recited in the characterizing part of claim
1
.
The invention also relates to a system arranged for executing a method as claimed in claim
1
. The invention also relates to a subsystem facility arranged for operating in a method context as claimed in claim
1
, and/or as part of a system as claimed in claim
2
. Further advantageous aspects of the invention are recited in dependent Claims.


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