System for downloading multimedia content and associated process

• US 20040121815A1
• Filed: 09/25/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Inventors: Passet, Georges, Fournier, Jean-Philippe
• Granted Patent: US 7,519,397 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/563
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for downloading multimedia content via a mobile telephony network (10) to a terminal (50; 60, 70), comprising a voice recognition device (40), a database (30) connected to the network (10) and containing multimedia files. The terminal (50; 60, 70) transmits a voice request to the voice recognition device (40) and the voice recognition device (40) interprets the request that it receives. After the request has been received and interpreted by the voice recognition device (40), one or more interpretation prompt(s) designating one or more file(s) contained in the database (30) are sent to the terminal (50; 60, 70). The terminal is able to return a prompt selected, thereby bringing about the downloading of a file corresponding to the prompt selected from the database (30) to the terminal (50; 60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10).

Claims

1. System for downloading multimedia content to a terminal (50;

60, 70), characterized in that the downloading is carried out via a mobile telephony network (10), the said terminal (50;

60, 70) being able to be connected to the mobile telephony network (10), the said system comprising a voice recognition device (40), a database (30) connected to the network (10) and containing multimedia files, the terminal (50;

60, 70) being able to transmit a voice request emanating from the user to the voice recognition device (40) and the voice recognition device (40) is able to interpret the request that it receives and to return to the terminal (50;

60, 70) one or more interpretation prompt(s) designating one or more file(s) contained in the database (30), the terminal being able to return a prompt selected by the user, thereby bringing about the downloading of a multimedia file corresponding to the prompt selected from the database (30) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10).

2. System according to claim 1, characterized in that the voice recognition device (40) is able to generate and transmit to the terminal (50;

60, 70) a list containing several most probable interpretation prompts.

3. System according to claim 2, characterized in that the prompts being associated with probabilities of correspondence with the user'"'"'s request, the prompts of the list of prompts are ranked according to their order of probability.

4. System according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the prompts are transmitted to the terminal (50;

60, 70) in the form of hypertext links tied with multimedia files contained in the database (30), the user being able to activate the link corresponding to his request.

5. System according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises means for recording the voice request.

6. System according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the terminal (50) is a mobile terminal having a voice channel and/or a data channel.

7. System according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the terminal (50) includes an Internet browser.

8. System according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises means for activating or deactivating the mode of operation with return of interpretation prompt(s) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) and;

in the case where this mode of operation is activated, the voice recognition device (40) is able to return one or more interpretation prompt(s) to the terminal (50;

60, 70),

in the case where this mode of operation is deactivated, the voice recognition device is able to transmit an interpretation directly to a server (50) for access to the database.

9. System according to claim 8, characterized in that the terminal (50;

60, 70) comprises means for measuring a parameter relating to the quality of the network and as a function of this parameter, activating or deactivating the mode of operation with return of prompt(s).

10. System according to claim 8, characterized in that the means for activating or deactivating the mode of operation with return of prompt(s) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) can be actuated by a user of the terminal (50;

60, 70).

25. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a mode of operation with return of prompt(s) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) is activated beforehand.

11. Process for downloading multimedia content to a terminal (50;

60, 70), characterized in that the downloading is carried out via a mobile telephony network (10), the said terminal being able to be connected to the mobile telephony network (10), said process comprising the steps according to which;

a user transmits a signal corresponding to a verbal request to a voice recognition device (40) from a terminal (50;

60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10),

the voice recognition device (40) processes the signal and returns to the terminal (50;

60, 70) one or more interpretation prompt(s) designating one or more multimedia file(s) contained in a database (30) connected to the network (10),

the user selects the prompt corresponding to the verbal request, thereby bringing about the downloading of a multimedia file corresponding to the prompt selected from the database (30) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10).

12. Process according to claim 11, characterized in that the voice request signal is a voice or data signal.

13. Process according to one of claims 11 or 12, characterized in that the prompts are returned from the database (30) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) in the form of a text message.

14. Process according to one of claims 11 or 12, characterized in that the prompts are returned from the database (30) to the terminal (50;

60, 70) in the form of a voice message transmitted as a sound file or by audio streaming.

15. Process according to one of claims 11 to 14, characterized in that the prompts are presented by the terminal (50;

60, 70) in a descending order of probability of correspondence with the request.

16. Process according to claim 13, characterized in that a prompt is selected by positioning a cursor over this prompt then by pressing an enable key of a keypad associated with the terminal (50;

60, 70).

17. Process according to one of claims 11 to 15, characterized in that the user selects a prompt by scrolling prompts down to the one whose selection is desired and then by pressing an enable key of a keypad associated with the terminal (50;

60, 70).

18. Process according to one of claims 11 to 15, characterized in that the user selects a prompt by pressing a key of a keypad associated with the terminal (50;

60, 70) identifying this prompt.

19. Process according to one of claims 11 to 15, characterized in that the user selects a prompt by verbally pronouncing a reference identifying this prompt.

20. Process according to one of claims 11 to 15, characterized in that the user selects a prompt by positioning a stylus on a touch screen associated with the terminal, at the level of the relevant prompt.

21. Process according to one of claims 11 to 20, characterized in that when none of the prompts is selected, the operation of processing the request by the voice recognition device (40) is repeated while eliminating the unselected prompts from a list of expressions that the voice recognition device (40) may comprise.

22. Process according to claim 21, characterized in that having recorded the voice request beforehand, this new processing operation is carried out on the basis of the initial recorded request.

23. Process according to claim 21, characterized in that this new processing operation is carried out on a new request.

24. Process according to claim 23, characterized in that when none of the prompts is selected, the new request is formulated in text or graphics mode.