Advanced set top terminal having a program pause feature with voice-to-text conversion
CA 2415053 A1 · Owner: Asmussen, Michael L. · Inventors: Asmussen, Michael L.
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A system for automatically pausing a video program in response to detection of the occurrence of a communications event audio communications event, interactive services event or triggering event. In response to an incoming phone call message, web page, or other communications information the system pauses the video program and displays an indication of the occurrence of the communications audio communications, or other event. In response to an outgoing communications such as a request for information or services the system pauses the video program. The system also buffers the video programming while paused permitting a user to replay missed portions of the video programming. Alternatively …
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- Filed June 15, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 15, 2021.
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