Method and apparatus for enhancing security between a Web server and a PSTN-based voice portal

• US 20030014670A1
• Filed: 07/03/2002
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apptera Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Apptera Incorporated
• Inventors: Chiu, Leo, Yuen, Michael S.
• Application Number:
  US10/190,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20030014670A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/201
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A security regimen is provided for implementing transaction security between a Web server and data and a voice portal system accessible through a telephony network on the user end and through an XML gateway on the data source end. The regimen includes one of a private connection, a virtual private network, or a secure socket layer, set-up between the Web server and the Voice Portal system through the XML gateway. Transactions carried on between the portal and the server enjoy the same security that is available between nodes on the data network. In one embodiment, the regimen further includes a voice translation system distributed at the outlet of the portal and at the telephone of the end user wherein the voice dialog is translated to an obscure language not that of the users language and then retranslated to the users language at the telephone of the user.

Claims

1. An enhanced security regimen for providing security between a Web server and data there hosted and a voice portal system accessible through a telephony network on the user end and through an XML gateway on the data source end comprising:

one of a private connection, a virtual private network, or a secure socket layer, set-up between the Web server and the Voice Portal system through the XML gateway;

characterized in that transactions carried on between the portal and the server enjoy the same security that is available between nodes on the data network.

2. The security regimen of claim 1 further including protocol for Web authentication forms.

3. The security regimen of claim 1 further including a voice translation system distributed at the outlet of the portal and at the telephone of the end user wherein the voice dialog is translated to an obscure language not that of the users language and then retranslated to the users language at the telephone of the user.