Computer-implemented web page summarization method and system

• US 20020087326A1
• Filed: 05/23/2001
• Published: 07/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qjunction Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qjunction Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Basir, Otman A., Sun, Jiping, Jing, Xing, Karray, Fakhreddine O., Lee, Victor Wai Leung
• Application Number:
  US09/863,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20020087326A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/183 using context dependencies, e.g. language models
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system for speech recognition of a user speech input. A web page is retrieved from the Internet so that words from the web page may be analyzed to determine word usage data. Concepts that are associated with the words from the web page are also determined. The word usage data and concepts are used to recognize words of the user speech input. The method and system also include using the identified word usage data and concepts to create a summary of the web page. The summary is then voiced to the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for speech recognition of a user speech input, comprising the steps of:

retrieving a web page from the Internet;

analyzing words from the web page in order to determine word usage data of the web page;

determining what concepts are associated with the words from the web page; and

using the word usage data and determined concepts to recognize words of the user speech input.

2. A computer-implemented speech synthesis method for communicating a web page to a user, comprising the steps of:

retrieving the web page from the Internet;

analyzing words from the web page in order to determine word usage data of the web page;

determining what concepts are associated with the words from the web page;

using the word usage data and determined concepts to generate a summary of the web page; and

communicating the summary of the web page through speech synthesis to the user.