阅读说明：本技术 一种信息处理方法、装置、介质和设备 (Information processing method, device, medium and equipment ) 是由 王磊 陈孝良 冯大航 于 2020-06-09 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种信息处理方法、装置、介质和设备。根据本发明实施例提供的方案,可以根据启动消息,自动获取采集装置采集到的音频信息,将获取到的音频信息装换为文本信息,并保存为该采集装置对应的用户标识所对应的文本信息,从而实现音频信息对应的文本信息的自动记录。本实施例提供的方案适用于任何需要对音频信息对应的文本信息进行自动记录的场景,如果将其应用于会议进行过程中,对每个人的发言内容对应的文本信息进行自动记录,则可以实现会议内容的高效准确记录,解决人工记录会议内容时,低效,且容易产生错误的问题。(The invention relates to an information processing method, an information processing device, an information processing medium and information processing equipment. According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the audio information acquired by the acquisition device can be automatically acquired according to the starting message, the acquired audio information is converted into the text information and is stored as the text information corresponding to the user identification corresponding to the acquisition device, so that the automatic recording of the text information corresponding to the audio information is realized. The scheme provided by the embodiment is suitable for any scene needing to automatically record the text information corresponding to the audio information, and if the scheme is applied to a conference in-process and automatically records the text information corresponding to the speech content of each person, the efficient and accurate recording of the conference content can be realized, and the problems of low efficiency and easy error generation during manual recording of the conference content are solved.)

1. An information processing method, characterized in that the method comprises:

receiving a starting message, wherein the starting message carries an acquisition device identifier;

acquiring audio information acquired by an acquisition device corresponding to the acquisition device identifier;

converting the audio information into text information;

and determining a user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier, and storing the text information as the text information corresponding to the user identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a user identification corresponding to the acquisition device identification comprises:

and determining the user identification corresponding to the acquisition device identification according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored acquisition device identification and the user identification.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein converting the audio information into textual information comprises:

performing voice endpoint detection on the audio information, and determining voice information corresponding to the audio information;

determining a voice feature vector corresponding to the voice information;

and determining corresponding text information according to the determined voice feature vector.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a closing message, wherein the closing message carries the acquisition device identifier;

segmenting the stored text information according to the closing message, and extracting first key information in the text information according to a segmentation result, wherein the importance degree of the first key information in the text information meets a set requirement;

and storing the extracted first key information as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein after saving the extracted first key information as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier, the method further comprises:

and sending the text information and the first key information to a designated display for displaying.

6. The method of any of claims 1 to 5, further comprising:

respectively segmenting words of the stored text information corresponding to the at least two user identifications, and extracting second key information according to word segmentation results, wherein the importance degree of the second key information in the at least two text information subjected to word segmentation meets the set requirement;

and storing the extracted second key information.

7. An information processing apparatus characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

the audio receiving module is used for receiving a starting message, wherein the starting message carries an acquisition device identifier, and acquiring audio information acquired by an acquisition device corresponding to the acquisition device identifier;

and the voice recognition module is used for converting the audio information into text information, determining a user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier, and storing the text information as the text information corresponding to the user identifier.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the voice recognition module to determine the user identifier corresponding to the collection apparatus identifier comprises:

and determining the user identification corresponding to the acquisition device identification according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored acquisition device identification and the user identification.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the speech recognition module to convert the audio information into textual information comprises:

performing voice endpoint detection on the audio information, and determining voice information corresponding to the audio information; determining a voice feature vector corresponding to the voice information; and determining corresponding text information according to the determined voice feature vector.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a text topic extraction module configured to receive a close message, where the close message carries the acquisition apparatus identifier; segmenting the stored text information according to the closing message, and extracting first key information in the text information according to a segmentation result, wherein the importance degree of the first key information in the text information meets a set requirement; and storing the extracted first key information as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a display module to send the text information and the first key information to a designated display for display.

12. The device according to any one of claims 7 to 11, further comprising a summary filing module, configured to perform word segmentation on the stored text information corresponding to the at least two user identifiers, respectively, and extract second key information according to a word segmentation result, where an importance degree of the second key information in the at least two text information subjected to word segmentation meets a set requirement; and storing the extracted second key information.

13. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing an executable program for execution by a processor to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 6.

14. An information processing device, characterized in that the device comprises a processor, a communication interface, a memory and a communication bus, wherein the processor, the communication interface and the memory are communicated with each other through the communication bus;

the memory is used for storing a computer program;

the processor, when executing the program stored in the memory, implementing the method steps of any of claims 1-6.

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an information processing method, apparatus, medium, and device.

Background

The meeting refers to an organized, leadership and purposeful meeting activity which is carried out according to a certain program at a limited time and place. Meetings are used in many scenes in life, such as voting meetings, annual meetings of companies and the like.

During the conference, the conference content is usually recorded as text manually, and the conference content includes the speech content of each person. This consumes a lot of manpower and is likely to cause problems such as missing records and erroneous records.

How to efficiently and accurately record the conference content becomes a problem which needs to be solved at present.

Disclosure of Invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide an information processing method, apparatus, medium, and device, which are used to solve the problem that conference content cannot be recorded efficiently and accurately.

The invention provides an information processing method, which comprises the following steps:

receiving a starting message, wherein the starting message carries an acquisition device identifier;

acquiring audio information acquired by an acquisition device corresponding to the acquisition device identifier;

converting the audio information into text information;

and determining a user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier, and storing the text information as the text information corresponding to the user identifier.

The present invention also provides an information processing apparatus, including:

the audio receiving module is used for receiving a starting message, wherein the starting message carries an acquisition device identifier, and acquiring audio information acquired by an acquisition device corresponding to the acquisition device identifier;

and the voice recognition module is used for converting the audio information into text information, determining a user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier, and storing the text information as the text information corresponding to the user identifier.

The present invention also provides a non-volatile computer storage medium having stored thereon an executable program for execution by a processor to implement the method as described above.

The invention also provides information processing equipment which comprises a processor, a communication interface, a memory and a communication bus, wherein the processor, the communication interface and the memory finish mutual communication through the communication bus;

the memory is used for storing a computer program;

the processor, when executing the program stored in the memory, is configured to implement the method steps as described above.

According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the audio information acquired by the acquisition device can be automatically acquired according to the starting message, the acquired audio information is converted into the text information and is stored as the text information corresponding to the user identification corresponding to the acquisition device, so that the automatic recording of the text information corresponding to the audio information is realized. The scheme provided by the embodiment is suitable for any scene needing to automatically record the text information corresponding to the audio information, and if the scheme is applied to a conference in-process and automatically records the text information corresponding to the speech content of each person, the efficient and accurate recording of the conference content can be realized, and the problems of low efficiency and easy error generation during manual recording of the conference content are solved.

Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an information processing apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an information processing process according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an information processing apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In view of the shortcomings of manual recording of conference content, the embodiment of the present invention provides a scheme for automatically recording conference content.

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, the "plurality" or "a plurality" mentioned herein means two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship.

The terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and in the claims, and in the drawings described above, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein.

Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Example one

An embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing method, where a flow of steps of the method may be as shown in fig. 1, and the method includes:

step 101, receiving a start message.

In this step, a start message may be received, where the start message carries the identifier of the acquisition device. In the embodiment of the present invention, the acquisition device may be any device that can realize audio acquisition, for example, a microphone.

The initiation message may be triggered in any manner, such as by pressing a designated key.

Step 102, obtaining audio information.

If the start message is received in step 101, in this step, the audio information acquired by the acquisition device corresponding to the acquisition device identifier may be acquired, so as to achieve automatic acquisition of the audio information.

And step 103, text conversion is carried out.

In this step, the received audio information may be converted into text information.

In one possible implementation, converting the received audio information into text information may include:

performing voice endpoint detection on the audio information, and determining voice information corresponding to the audio information;

determining a voice feature vector corresponding to the voice information;

and determining corresponding text information according to the determined voice feature vector.

In the present embodiment, voice endpoint detection is performed on the audio information, which may be implemented based on, but not limited to, Voice Activity Detection (VAD). When voice endpoint detection is carried out based on VAD, a mute section in the audio information can be cut off, and an effective voice section is reserved, so that the corresponding voice information can be determined from the received audio information to carry out subsequent processing, and the efficiency of the subsequent processing is improved.

The determined speech feature vector may be, but is not limited to, a filter bank (Fbank) feature vector, or a mel-frequency cepstrum coefficient (MFCC) feature vector.

In addition, in the process of determining the corresponding text information according to the determined speech feature vector, the acoustic model may adopt a deep neural network and a hidden markov model (HMM-DNN) model to improve the accuracy of determining the text information.

In addition, in the process of determining the corresponding text information according to the determined voice feature vector, a decoder can adopt a Weighted Finite State Transducer (WFST) based decoder to improve the accuracy of determining the text information.

And step 104, storing information.

In this step, the user identifier corresponding to the received acquisition device identifier may be determined, and the text information obtained by conversion may be stored as the text information corresponding to the user identifier.

In a possible implementation manner, the user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier may be determined according to a pre-stored correspondence between the acquisition device identifier and the user identifier.

That is, in this embodiment, when the audio information is converted into the text information and stored, the corresponding relationship between the text information and the user can be established according to the corresponding relationship between the acquisition device and the user, and the text information is stored as the text information corresponding to a certain user, so that the classified storage of the text information is realized, the information recording is relatively accurate, and the subsequent text information search according to the user identification is facilitated.

Further, the method may further comprise the steps of:

step 105, receiving a close message.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, step 105 may be executed after step 101, and at this time, step 102 is not executed yet, and then the present flow may be ended after step 105.

Step 105 may also be performed after step 102 and before step 104, and if step 105 is performed after step 102 and before step 104, step 106 may be performed after step 104 is performed.

Step 105 may also be performed after step 104, in which case step 106 may be performed sequentially after step 105.

In the present embodiment, the step 105 is performed after the step 104 as an example.

In this step, a closing message may be received, where the closing message carries the acquisition device identifier.

It can be understood that the shutdown message received in this step is the shutdown message corresponding to the acquisition device corresponding to the start message received in step 101.

And 106, extracting the first key information.

In this step, the converted and stored text information may be segmented according to the received close message, and the first key information in the text information may be extracted according to the segmentation result, where the importance degree of the first key information in the text information satisfies the set requirement.

In one possible implementation manner, the first key information may be a word (which may be simply referred to as a keyword) whose importance level in the text information satisfies a set requirement, or may be a sentence (which may be simply referred to as a key sentence) whose importance level in the text information satisfies a set requirement.

Taking the first key information as an example of the keyword, the first key information in the text information is extracted according to the word segmentation result, and the weight of each word in the text information may be determined based on a word frequency-inverse text frequency index (TF-IDF) algorithm according to the word segmentation result, and the top N words with the highest weight (N is a positive integer not less than 1) are extracted. That is, the importance degree of each participle may be measured based on the weight of each participle determined by the TF-IDF algorithm, and the top N participles with the highest weight determined based on the TF-IDF algorithm may be used as the keywords in the text message, where the importance degree meets the setting requirement.

In the text information, the importance of a sentence is determined according to the importance of each participle included in the sentence, for example, the importance of a sentence may correspond to the sum of the importance of each participle included in the sentence. Taking the example of determining the weight of each participle based on the TF-IDF algorithm to characterize the importance degree of each participle, the weight of a sentence may be the sum of the weights of each participle included in the sentence.

If the first key information is a key sentence, extracting the first key information in the text information according to the word segmentation result, which may be, but is not limited to, determining the weight of each word segmentation in the text information based on a TF-IDF algorithm according to the word segmentation result, taking the sum of the weights of each word segmentation included in each sentence as the weight of the sentence, and extracting the top M sentences with the highest weight (M is a positive integer not less than 1).

That is, in the present embodiment, a piece of audio information can be summarized. If the received audio information corresponds to a speech of a user in a conference, the extracted first key information can be understood as the first key information of the speech. It can be understood that by extracting the first key information, summary of the one-time utterance can be achieved, and then the core content of the one-time utterance can be determined directly according to the stored first key information.

And step 107, storing the first key information.

In this step, the extracted first key information may be stored as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier determined in step 104. That is, the corresponding relationship between the first key information and the user may be further established, and the first key information may be stored as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier.

It can be understood that, in this embodiment, not only texts corresponding to the utterance contents of each person during the conference can be automatically recorded, but also key text information corresponding to one utterance can be automatically recorded.

It should be noted that, after the extracted first key information is stored as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier determined in step 104, further, the stored text information and the first key information may be sent to a designated display to be displayed, so that a user using the display may view the displayed text information and the first key information. The designated display may correspond to the participant corresponding to the saved text message, or may correspond to other participants.

Of course, after step 104, the saved text information may be directly sent to a designated display for display. In this step, only the stored first key information may be transmitted to a designated display and displayed.

If the text information is stored for at least two user identifiers, that is, it can be understood that at least two steps from step 101 to step 104 are performed, in this embodiment, the text information corresponding to the stored at least two user identifiers may be segmented, second key information is extracted according to the segmentation result, the importance degree of the second key information in the at least two text information subjected to the segmentation meets the set requirement, and the extracted second key information is stored.

Similar to the first key information, the second key information may be a word (which may be simply referred to as a keyword) whose importance level in the text information subjected to word segmentation satisfies the set requirement, or may be a sentence (which may be simply referred to as a key sentence) whose importance level in the text information subjected to word segmentation satisfies the set requirement.

If the second key information is a keyword or a key sentence, the method for extracting the second key information is similar to the method for extracting the first key information, and is not repeated here.

That is, in this embodiment, the audio information corresponding to different users can also be summarized and summarized. If the text information corresponding to one user identifier corresponds to the speech of one user in the conference, extracting second key information with the importance degree meeting the set requirement aiming at the stored text information corresponding to at least two user identifiers, and summarizing the speech of at least two users.

If the text information corresponding to the at least two user identifications corresponds to the speeches of all users in one conference, extracting second key information with the importance degree meeting the set requirement aiming at the stored text information corresponding to the at least two user identifications, and can be understood as summarizing the speeches of all users in the conference.

And the extracted second key information is stored, so that the summary of all the user speeches on the conference can be obtained subsequently directly according to the stored second key information, and the core content of the conference is obtained.

It can be understood that, in this embodiment, the key text information corresponding to all the user utterances in the conference may also be automatically recorded.

According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the conference information can be effectively and automatically managed. The method comprises the steps of automatically inputting the speaking content of the participants into texts, automatically extracting first key information and helping the participants to summarize the speaking. In addition, the second key information can be automatically extracted according to the speaking content of each participant, and the conference content can be summarized. By storing and archiving the automatically acquired information, a large amount of labor can be saved, and the conference system is favorable for subsequently calling and inquiring the corresponding information of the conference.

Corresponding to the method provided in the first embodiment, the following apparatuses are provided.

Example two

A second embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing apparatus, which may be configured as shown in fig. 2, and includes:

the audio receiving module 11 is configured to receive a start message, where the start message carries an acquisition device identifier, and acquires audio information acquired by an acquisition device corresponding to the acquisition device identifier; the voice recognition module 12 is configured to convert the audio information into text information, determine a user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier, and store the text information as text information corresponding to the user identifier.

In a possible implementation manner, the determining, by the speech recognition module 12, a user identifier corresponding to the acquisition device identifier includes:

and determining the user identification corresponding to the acquisition device identification according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored acquisition device identification and the user identification.

In one possible implementation, the voice recognition module 12 converts the audio information into text information, including:

performing voice endpoint detection on the audio information, and determining voice information corresponding to the audio information; determining a voice feature vector corresponding to the voice information; and determining corresponding text information according to the determined voice feature vector.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus further includes a text topic extraction module 13, configured to receive a closing message, where the closing message carries the acquisition apparatus identifier; segmenting the stored text information according to the closing message, and extracting first key information in the text information according to a segmentation result, wherein the importance degree of the first key information in the text information meets a set requirement; and storing the extracted first key information as the first key information corresponding to the user identifier.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus further includes a display module 14, configured to send the text information and the first key information to a designated display for displaying.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus further includes a summary filing module 15, configured to perform word segmentation on the stored text information corresponding to the at least two user identifiers, respectively, and extract second key information according to a word segmentation result, where an importance degree of the second key information in the at least two text information subjected to word segmentation meets a set requirement; and storing the extracted second key information.

The scheme provided by the second embodiment of the invention is suitable for a conference scene in which each participant corresponds to one microphone and one display, and the schematic diagram of the information processing process at this time can be shown in fig. 3. Suppose that a conference scene includes n participants (n is a positive integer not less than 1).

The correspondence between each microphone and the user identifier of the corresponding participant can be pre-established, and fig. 3 illustrates that the microphones (respectively represented by microphones 1 to 3) respectively correspond to 3 participants, and the microphones respectively corresponding to other participants are represented by ellipses.

The information processing device can acquire the audio information of the corresponding participants through each microphone respectively, and aiming at the acquired audio information, corresponding text information is obtained through voice recognition (the text information corresponding to the participants corresponding to the microphones 1-3 in the figure 2 is represented by the text information of the participants 1-3 respectively), first key information (which can be assumed as key words) can be extracted from the text information, and the speech summary corresponding to each participant is acquired (the speech summary corresponding to the participants corresponding to the microphones 1-3 in the figure 2 is represented by the speech summary of the participants 1-3 respectively).

Furthermore, second key information (which can be assumed as a key sentence) can be extracted according to text information corresponding to each participant, so that automatic summarization of the conference content is realized.

Based on the same inventive concept, embodiments of the present invention provide the following apparatus and medium.

EXAMPLE III

A third embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing apparatus, which may have a structure as shown in fig. 4, and includes a processor 21, a communication interface 22, a memory 23, and a communication bus 24, where the processor 21, the communication interface 22, and the memory 23 complete mutual communication through the communication bus 24;

the memory 23 is used for storing computer programs;

the processor 21 is configured to implement the method steps according to the first embodiment of the present invention when executing the program stored in the memory.

Optionally, the processor 21 may specifically include a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), one or more Integrated circuits for controlling program execution, a hardware Circuit developed by using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and a baseband processor.

Optionally, the processor 21 may include at least one processing core.

Alternatively, the Memory 23 may include a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), and a disk Memory. The memory 23 is used for storing data required by the at least one processor 21 during operation. The number of the memory 23 may be one or more.

A fourth embodiment of the present invention provides a non-volatile computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium stores an executable program, and when the executable program is executed by a processor, the method provided in the first embodiment of the present invention is implemented.

In particular implementations, computer storage media may include: various storage media capable of storing program codes, such as a Universal Serial Bus Flash Drive (USB), a mobile hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

In the embodiments of the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, the described unit or division of units is only one division of logical functions, and there may be other divisions when actually implemented, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical or other form.

The functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may be an independent physical module.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, all or part of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device, such as a personal computer, a server, or a network device, or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a Universal Serial Bus Flash Drive (usb Flash Drive), a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the invention.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to include such modifications and variations.