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Telephone communication with silent response feature

  • US 20050141680A1
  • Filed: 02/25/2005
  • Published: 06/30/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A telephone communication method comprising (a) establishing a voice telephony call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of a user;

  • (b) during the course of at least part of the call and at said user'"'"'s choice, facilitating generation of a response to voice input from said entity to the call, by carrying out speech recognition and semantic analysis on said input to generate input-dependent response options at least some of which are not expressed in said input, these response options being presented to the user through the telephony-enabled apparatus;

    (c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate said response by at least selecting a said response option for use in the response; and

    (d) sending the response back to said entity.

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