公开(公告)号：DE3876887D1

公开(公告)日：1993-02-04

申请号：DE3876887

申请日：1988-06-28

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  GAY ADRIAN CHARLES ,  BRESENHAM JACK E

IPC: G06F3/153 ,  G06T11/20 ,  G09G1/10 ,  G09G5/20 ,  G09G5/36 ,  G06K15/22 ,  G09G1/14

公开(公告)号：GB2377782A

公开(公告)日：2003-01-22

申请号：GB0117811

申请日：2001-07-21

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  GIBSON CHRISTOPHER R ,  SHARP CHRISTOPHER EDWARD

IPC: G06Q30/00 ,  G06F17/60

Abstract: There is provided a method and system of processing electronic transactions involving three parties, normally remote from one another. A service requestor(SR) requests a good or service from a service provider(SP) on the condition that certain terms will be fulfilled indicating that the good or service is provided at a particular standard. The service provider registers with a reputation authority terms for the supply of a good or service. Independently the service requestor acquires from the reputation authority a public key for which the private key is kept by the reputation authority. The service requestor(30) requests the service provider(20) for a good or service according to certain terms and the request is sent to the reputation authority which compares registered terms with the requested terms and if compatible signs the transaction with the retained private key and sends the signed transaction back to the service requestor. The service requestor can be confident that the service provider terms in the signed transaction has been assured by the reputation authority.

公开(公告)号：GB2325112B

公开(公告)日：2002-07-31

申请号：GB9709187

申请日：1997-05-06

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  HUGHES JEREMY PETER JAMES ,  HULSE BRIAN ,  JORDAN ROBERT MICHAEL ,  MAYNARD CAROLINE EDITH ,  PICKERING JOHN BRIAN ,  RITCHIE ANDREW

IPC: H04M3/493 ,  H04M7/12 ,  H04M3/50

公开(公告)号：GB2329490B

公开(公告)日：2002-06-05

申请号：GB9720015

申请日：1997-09-19

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  BOWDEN JACQUELINE ,  HYATT STEVEN JOHN ,  RENSHAW DAVID SEAGER ,  WONG YUK-LUN

IPC: G06F9/44

公开(公告)号：GB2300087B

公开(公告)日：1999-04-28

申请号：GB9507905

申请日：1995-04-18

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  COBBETT MICHAEL ,  STATON MERVYN ANTHONY

IPC: H04M3/487 ,  H04M3/50

Abstract: The invention relates to a voice processing system capable of outputting voice prompts and background music. The volume of background music is progressively variable relative to the voice prompts or speech. The progressive variation is effected by multiplying the background music samples by a scaling factor and then adding together a current voice sample and the scaled background music sample. Accordingly, when the combined samples are output to the user the volume of the background music varies.

公开(公告)号：GB2317070A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-11

申请号：GB9618732

申请日：1996-09-07

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  HUGHES JEREMY PETER JAMES ,  LAWRENCE STEPHEN GRAHAM COPING ,  MALAIKA SUSAN ,  PORTER LAWRENCE L

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04M3/493 ,  H04M7/00 ,  H04M3/50

Abstract: A voice processing system, method and computer program product therefor, allows telephone callers without computers to access World Wide Web pages from the Internet. Usual graphical-based Hyper-Text Mark-Up language (HTML) commands are interspersed with special HTML tags including the commands and data for forming a voice application, which, when run on the voice processing system, provides a voice browser for allowing telephone callers to access Web pages. The voice application tags are provided together with the remainder of the HTML document, thus facilitating editing of the combined data. This helps to keep the graphical browser and voice browser versions of the same data set synchronized.

公开(公告)号：GB2293519A

公开(公告)日：1996-03-27

申请号：GB9418942

申请日：1994-09-20

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： PRIME DAVID J ,  COBBETT MICHAEL ,  STATON MERVYN ANTHONY ,  BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID

IPC: H04M3/487 ,  H04Q11/04 ,  H04M3/50

Abstract: A voice processing system 60 is connected via a digital trunk line 100 to a telephone switch 10, which is itself connected to a telephony network 30 by a digital trunk line 20. The digital trunk line between the switch and the network uses a first encoding law for representing the amplitude of the telephony signals, for example A-law encoding. However, applications running on the voice processing system are designed to operate on signals encoded in accordance with a different amplitude-encoding law, for example mu-law encoding. The voice processing system therefore includes in a telephone interface module 70 conversion means for converting incoming signals from the first encoding law to the second, and vice versa for outgoing signals.

公开(公告)号：DE68916249T2

公开(公告)日：1995-05-24

申请号：DE68916249

申请日：1989-11-30

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  HARRISON ROY BERNARD ,  BARRACLOUGH KEITH ROBERT

IPC: G01R31/28 ,  G01R31/3185 ,  G06F1/04 ,  G06F1/10 ,  G06F11/22 ,  G11C19/00 ,  G01R31/3177

Abstract: A logic circuit is presented comprising a plurality of registers 30, 39; each register 30 having first register latches 31, 41 for clocking data into the register 30 in response to a first clock signal 37 and second register latches for clocking data out of the register in response to a second clock signal 38, and combinatorial logic comprising address logic 4 for addressing data to a register and first suppression logic 33 for inhibiting the first clock signal input to the register in responsive to the address logic, wherein the logic circuit further comprises second suppression logic 34, 35 for inhibiting the second clock signal input to the register in collective response to the address logic and the first clock signal.

公开(公告)号：GB2203317A

公开(公告)日：1988-10-12

申请号：GB8707851

申请日：1987-04-02

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： HARRISON ROY BERNARD ,  BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  BOWATER RONALD JOHN ,  NORRIS PAUL WILLIAM

IPC: G06T1/60 ,  G09G5/393 ,  G06F3/153

公开(公告)号：GB2351869A

公开(公告)日：2001-01-10

申请号：GB9914881

申请日：1999-06-26

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BUTLER NICHOLAS DAVID ,  RENSHAW DAVID SEAGER ,  RITCHIE ANDREW JAMES

IPC: H04M3/487 ,  H04M7/00 ,  H04M3/527

Abstract: A voice processing system is disclosed having a first interface for receiving telephone calls from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and application software for processing received PSTN telephone calls. The voice processing system supports an API to allow the first interface to inform the application software of the presence of the call. The voice processing system further has a second interface for receiving telephone calls from an internet protocol (IP) network, and a signalling subsystem for routing an IP call from the second interface to the application software. This signalling subsystem uses the same API as is used to inform the application software about PSTN calls. Therefore, it is transparent to the application software whether an incoming call has been received from the IP network rather than the PSTN.