Patent ID: 7668567

Claim:
An audio prompted interface device using a time domain multiple selection protocol for operating an electric product, the interface device comprising: a device housing, a processor and cooperating memory and a power supply mounted in said housing, an audio broadcaster mounted in said housing and cooperating with said processor for audibly broadcasting outside of said housing a sequenced series of audible prompts supplied by said processor to said audio broadcaster, an input switch mounted in said housing for receiving input from a user, said input for biasing of said input switch in response to a single prompt of said series of audible prompts, a timer cooperating with said processor, said processor correlating said response to said single prompt with a corresponding single time domain within a sequential series of time domains timed by said timer, said processor correlating said single time domain with said single prompt and executing a single action corresponding to said single prompt according to an instruction set in said memory, wherein audio data comprising said series of audible prompts is compressed so as to increase speed of presentation of said series of audible prompts, and wherein said series of audible prompts comprise a sequentially audibly broadcast list of names from a list of names in said memory, wherein said single prompt is a single name from said list and said single action corresponding to said single name is to dial a telephone number, from a corresponding list of telephone numbers, corresponding to said single name.