Web-based food ordering system utilizing a text-to-speech engine
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1. A web-based food ordering system, comprising:
- a customer computer system; and
a server in communication with the customer computer system, the server hosting a restaurant related web site that provides web pages of restaurant information for participating restaurants to a customer via the customer computer system, wherein the server is coupled to a public telephone network, and wherein the server provides verbal order information to a selected one of the participating restaurants responsive to input from the customer provided via the customer computer system, where the input from the customer includes a special order entry in textual format.
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Abstract
A web-based food ordering system includes a customer computer system in communication with a server. The server hosts a restaurant related web site that provides web pages of restaurant information for participating restaurants to a customer, via the customer computer system. The server is coupled to a public telephone network and the server provides verbal order information to a selected one of the participating restaurants responsive to input from the customer provided via the customer computer system. The input from the customer includes a special order entry in textual format.
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1. A web-based food ordering system, comprising:
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a customer computer system; and
a server in communication with the customer computer system, the server hosting a restaurant related web site that provides web pages of restaurant information for participating restaurants to a customer via the customer computer system, wherein the server is coupled to a public telephone network, and wherein the server provides verbal order information to a selected one of the participating restaurants responsive to input from the customer provided via the customer computer system, where the input from the customer includes a special order entry in textual format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A web-based food ordering system, comprising:
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a customer computer system; and
a server in communication with the customer computer system, the server hosting a restaurant related web site that provides web pages of restaurant information for participating restaurants to a customer via the customer computer system, wherein the server is coupled to a public telephone network, and wherein the server provides verbal order information to a selected one of the participating restaurants responsive to input from the customer provided via the customer computer system, where the input from the customer includes a special order entry in textual format, and where the server initiates a telephone call to the selected one of the participating restaurants via a public telephone network to provide the verbal order information to the selected one of the participating restaurants. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A web-based food ordering system, comprising:
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a customer computer system; and
a server in communication with the customer computer system, the server hosting a restaurant related web site that provides web pages of restaurant information for participating restaurants to a customer via the customer computer system, wherein the server is coupled to a public telephone network, and wherein the server provides verbal order information to a selected one of the participating restaurants responsive to input from the customer provided via the customer computer system, where the input from the customer includes a special order entry in textual format, and where the server initiates a telephone call to the selected one of the participating restaurants via a public telephone network to provide the verbal order information to the selected one of the participating restaurants and the server and the customer computer system communicate via the Internet. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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