Telecommunication system, and switch, and server, and method

• US 20020123889A1
• Filed: 02/27/2002
• Published: 09/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Sienel, Jurgen, Kopp, Dieter
• Granted Patent: US 7,711,567 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6472 Internet

Abstract

Known telecommunication systems comprising a terminal, a switch and on Internet/Intranet comprising a memory for storing information blocks at locations defined by addresses, can be made more user-friendly by introducing a detector for detecting speech-recognition/non-speech-recognition related parts in control signals originating from said terminal and defining said addresses or in response signals sent from memory to terminal and comprising said information blocks. A processor is coupled to said detector for in dependence of said detecting routing (parts of) said signals to a server for either conversion of (parts of) said signals or for information purposes.

Claims

1. Telecommunication system comprising a terminal, a switch and at least a part of an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, with at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and with at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, characterised in that said switch comprises a detector for detecting speech-recognition/non-speech-recognition related parts in said signals, and comprises a processor for, in response to a detection, processing said signals.

2. Telecommunication system according to claim 1, characterised in that said control signals comprise speech-recognition related parts and/or non-speech-recognition related parts, with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part, routing said speech-recognition related part to a server for converting said speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, and with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part, converting said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory.

3. Telecommunication system according to claim 2, characterised in that said terminal comprises a preprocessing unit for preprocessing speech-recognition related parts of said control signals, with said server comprising a final processing unit for final processing said preprocessed speech-recognition related parts.

4. Telecommunication system according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterised in that said response signals comprise speech-recognition related parts and/or non-speech-recognition related parts, with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part, routing said speech-recognition related part to said server, and with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part, letting said non-speech-recognition related part pass to allow said non-speech-recognition related part being sent to said terminal.

5. Switch for use in a telecommunication system comprising a terminal, said switch and at least a part of an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, with at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and with at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, characterised in that said switch comprises a detector for detecting speech-recognition/non-speech-recognition related parts in said signals, and comprises a processor for, in response to a detection, processing said signals.

6. Switch according to claim 5, characterised in that said control signals comprise speech-recognition related parts and/or non-speech-recognition related parts, with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part, routing said speech-recognition related part to a server for converting said speech-recognition related part info an address signal destined for said memory, and with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part, converting said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory.

7. Switch according to claim 5 or 6, characterised in that said response signals comprise speech-recognition related parts and/or non-speech-recognition related parts, with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part, routing said speech-recognition related part to said server, and with said processing comprising, in response to detection of a non-speech-recognition related part, letting said non-speech-recognition related part pass to allow said non-speech-recognition related part being sent to said terminal.

8. Server for use in a telecommunication system comprising a terminal, a switch and at least a part of an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, with at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and with at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, characterised in that said switch comprises a detector for detecting speech-recognition/non-speech-recognition related parts in said control signals, and comprises a processor for, in response to a detection, processing said control signals comprising speech-recognition related parts and/or non-speech-recognition related parts, with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part, routing said speech-recognition related part to said server comprising a converter for converting said speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, and with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part, converting said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory.

9. Server according to claim 8, characterised in that said terminal comprises a preprocessing unit for preprocessing speech-recognition related parts of said control signals, with said server comprising a final processing unit for final processing said preprocessed speech-recognition related parts.

10. Method for use in a telecommunication system comprising a terminal, a switch and at least a part of an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, with at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and with at east parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, characterised in that said method comprises a first step of detecting speech-recognition/non-speech-recognition related parts in said signals and a second step of, in response to a detection, processing said signals.