Patent Document ID: 8972269
Application ID: 12325321

Base Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: a processor configured to execute instructions accessed from an application stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the application comprising: an interface module configured to provide a transcript interface for displaying a plurality of words of a transcript and receive a command identifying a selected word of the transcript and a desired edit to the transcript from a plurality of permitted edits; and a transcript manager module configured to edit a transcript dataset corresponding to the transcript in response to the command, wherein the transcript dataset comprises the plurality of words and data correlating each of the plurality of words to a respective point in time, wherein editing the transcript dataset comprises merging the selected word with an adjacent word by creating a new data item comprising the text of the selected word and the adjacent word combined and a time index marker corresponding to an earlier point in time as between the selected word and the adjacent word.

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Claim 6:
6. The computer system set forth in claim 1 , wherein generating a new data item further comprises determining respective durations of the selected word and the adjacent word, wherein the new data item further comprises an additional duration equal to the sum of the respective durations of the selected word and the adjacent word.