Patent ID: 7904598
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented apparatus for receiving audio signals from a scanner, the apparatus comprising: (a) a processing unit which receives an audio signal output of the scanner and prepares the audio signal for transmission over a network by encoding the audio signal output of the scanner to digitally encoded audio; (b) a scanner workstation physically remote from the processing unit and the scanner, the workstation including an application for receiving the digitally encoded audio and decoding the digitally encoded audio to an original audio signal output of the scanner; and (c) a transport network having at least two edge nodes, the transport network being in communication at one edge node with the processing unit to receive the digitally encoded audio and being in communication at the other edge node with the scanner workstation to provide the digitally encoded audio to the scanner workstation in real-time, or in near real-time, and without buffering of the digitally encoded audio.