Patent ID: 7050551

Claim:
A method for capturing and storing information from an audio channel of a communication device, the method comprising: receiving real time audio content from an audio channel; sending the real time audio content to an audio out module on the communication device; storing a predetermined amount of most recent real time audio content, where the predetermined amount is less than the total real time audio content received from the audio channel; detecting a trigger event to capture and store information from the real time audio content, and in response to said trigger event: storing new real time audio content received after the trigger event; prepending the stored predetermined amount of audio content to the stored new audio content, wherein the stored predetermined amount of audio content and the stored new audio content are substantially temporally contiguous; converting the stored predetermined amount of audio content and the stored new audio content to textual data; parsing the textual data to obtain a data element; and storing the data element in a data storage area.