Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Information location or remote operator actuated control – Selective addressing of storage medium
Patent
1980-08-14
1982-05-04
Moffitt, James W.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Information location or remote operator actuated control
Selective addressing of storage medium
369 25, H04M 165, H04M 1110
Patent
active
043283977
ABSTRACT:
A machine, such as a dictation/transcription machine, is provided with a processor that is programmed to cycle through a set of instructions for selecting and controlling predetermined operating conditions. The actuation of one of a number of selector switches is sensed, and it is determined whether the machine exhibits the operating condition associated with the actuated switch. If so, that condition is terminated; but if not, the machine is disposed in the associated condition. If the aforementioned switch is not actuated, the actuation of a second switch associated with the same condition is sensed. If that second switch is actuated, the machine is disposed in the associated condition; and when that second switch subsequently is deactuated, the associated condition is terminated. These steps are cyclically repeated. In one embodiment, the aforementioned operating condition is a power ON condition, and the first switch is a manually operable power switch, such as a push button switch, and the second switch may be either a cradle switch or an accessory power switch. In accordance with another embodiment, the operating condition is a telephone mode of operation, whereby voice signals are received via the telephone network and recorded by the dictation/transcription machine. If the machine is not then disposed in its telephone mode, the actuation of a telephone switch establishes this mode, while overriding other operating conditions that may have been present. The status of such overridden conditions are stored and reinstated when the telephone switch is reactuated to terminate the telephone mode of operation.
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Dictaphone Corporation
McElheny Jr. Donald
Moffitt James W.
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