Patent Document ID: 8412523
Application ID: 13422151

Base Claim:
1. A dictation manager connected to at least one client station and a plurality of dictation servers, comprising: at least one network data port to receive audio signals from the connected client station and to transmit the received audio signals to the plurality of connected dictation servers; a dictation server selector to select one of the plurality of connected dictation servers to which the received audio signal is transmitted for transcription; at least one memory containing a user profile and an indication of whether the user profile has been uploaded and maintained in one of the plurality of dictation servers to which the dictation manager is connected; wherein if the dictation server selector determines that the user profile has been uploaded and maintained by one of the plurality of dictation servers, the dictation server selector selects the one of the plurality of dictation servers; wherein if the dictation server selector determines that the user profile has not been uploaded or maintained by any of the plurality of dictation servers, the dictation server selector selects any one of the plurality of dictation servers and uploads the user profile.

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Claim 7:
7. The dictation manager of claim 1 further comprising a user profile corrector wherein the dictation manager is further configured to receive corrective textual data from the client station and a user profile corrector updates the user profile based on the corrective textual data.