Systems and methods for a wireless microphone to access remotely hosted applications

• US 10,418,034 B1
• Filed: 06/19/2015
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: nVoq, Inc.
• Original Assignee: nVoq, Inc.
• Inventors: Mondragon, David, Clark, Michael, Foltynski, Jarek, Corfield, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Mishra, Richa
• Application Number:
  US14/744,914
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

The technology of the present application provides software as a service (SaaS) executing on a server in a cloud or network. The SaaS receives data from a mobile device of a user over the network. The SaaS processes the data and returns the processed data to a client application executing on a client device of the user, which user is the same as the user of the mobile device wherein there is no direct communication link, wireless or wired, between the mobile device and the client device. In one aspect, the technology of the present application provides the mobile device as a smartphone and a microphone application to be executed on the smartphone.

Claims

1. A method of coordinating network communication between a mobile device running a mobile application and a client device running a client application through a server running a hosted application, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the server, credential information for a user of the client application executing on the client device;

registering, by the server, the user of the client application with the hosted application executing on the server;

identifying, by the server, a mobile device that is separate from the client device and that the user uses to communicate, via a first communication link, with the hosted application executing on the server;

receiving, at the server, data from the mobile device;

processing the data received from the mobile device by the hosted application executing at the server; and

transmitting, by the server, a result of the data processed by the hosted application to the client application executing on the client device via a second communication link, the first and second communication links containing at least a different resource locator from each other,

wherein,

the hosted application executing on the server is a speech to text application,

the data received at the server from the mobile device comprises audio, an audio shortcut, a voice command, or a combination thereof, and

the result of the processed data transmitted from the server to the client application executing on the client device is text, a shortcut, a command to be executed by the client application, or a combination thereof, the text corresponding to the audio received at the server from the mobile device, the shortcut corresponding to the audio shortcut received at the server from the mobile device, and the command corresponding to the voice command received at the server from the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the client application provides a graphical user interface.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the graphical user interface is an electronic health record application.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the graphical user interface is a customer relationship management application.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of identifying the mobile device comprises receiving a credential of the user of the mobile device and the hosted application associating the mobile device of the user to the client application of the user.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of identifying the mobile device comprises transmitting a client identifier of the client application of the user to the mobile device and identifying the client identifier in the data received from the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first communication link uses a cellular connection.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving a next event request form the client application, and wherein the hosted application transmits the processed data to the client application on receiving the next event request.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device comprises a wireless microphone.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the wireless microphone comprises a smartphone executing a microphone application.

11. The method of claim 2 wherein the graphical user interface is an enterprise workforce productivity application.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the data received at the server from the mobile device comprises audio to be matched against a pattern received from the client application, and the result of the processed data transmitted by the server to the client application is the shortcut or the command to be executed by the dent application executing on the client device.