Method and system for creating pervasive computing environments

• US 20050188111A1
• Filed: 01/20/2005
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ashish Khosla, Donald E. Armstrong
• Original Assignee: Ashish Khosla, Donald E. Armstrong
• Inventors: Armstrong, Donald E., Khosla, Ashish
• Application Number:
  US11/039,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20050188111A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/20 Natural language analysis semantic analysis of natural language G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A concise linked document language, a computer network client interpreting the concise linked document language, and exemplary applications using the concise linked document language. The concise linked document language incorporates features which allow presentation, acquisition, and document links using a distributed client composed of a computer network device linked via a communications link to an information device. The distributed client can be used to access servers located on a computer network from almost any information device creating a pervasive computer networking environment. The features of the concise linked document language allow rapid construction and deployment of Internet based applications which are extended by existing communications links such as a voice/email system where the native email documents may be presented as either text or voice depending on the presentation capabilities of the information device.

Claims

1. A communications gateway linking a plurality of information devices in a communications network to a computer network, comprising:

a computing device operably coupled to the communications network and operably coupled to the computer network, the computing device including;

a processor; and

a memory operably coupled to the processor and having program instructions stored therein, the processor being operable to execute the program instructions, the program instructions including;

receiving direct inward dial number signals from an information device via the communications link;

translating the direct inward dial number signals into a uniform resource locator;

retrieving an electronic document from the computer network using the uniform resource locator, the electronic document including a presentation portion and dialog instructions;

transmitting the presentation portion of the electronic document via the communications link to the information device;

receiving input signals via the communications link from the information device; and

responding to the input signals based on the dialog instructions.

2. The communications gateway of claim 1, wherein the electronic document is written in a concise linked document language.

3. The communications gateway of claim 1, the program instructions further including translating the electronic document into a concise linked language document.

4. The communications gateway of claim 1, the input signals including DTMF signals.

5. The communications gateway of claim 1, the input signals including encoded voice signals.

6. A method of creating a communications gateway linking a plurality of information devices in a communications network to a computer network, comprising:

providing a computing device operably coupled to the communications network and operably coupled to the computer network;

receiving by the computing device via the communications link from an information device direct inward dial number signals;

translating by the computing device the direct inward dial number signals into a uniform resource locator;

retrieving by the computing device from the computer network an electronic document using the uniform resource locator, the electronic document including a presentation portion and dialog instructions;

transmitting by the computing device via the communications link to the information device the presentation portion of the electronic document;

receiving by the computing device via the communications link from the information device input signals; and

responding by the computing device to the input signals based on the dialog instructions.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the electronic document is written in a concise linked document language.

8. The method of claim 6, the program instructions further including translating the electronic document into a concise linked language document.

9. The method of claim 6, the input signals including DTMF signals.

10. The method of claim 6, the input signals including encoded voice signals.

11. A computer readable media embodying computer program instructions for execution by a computer, the computer program instructions adapting a computer to link a plurality of information devices in a communications network to a computer network, the computer program instructions comprising:

receiving direct inward dial number signals from an information device via the communications link;

translating the direct inward dial number signals into a uniform resource locator;

retrieving an electronic document from the computer network using the uniform resource locator, the electronic document including a presentation portion and dialog instructions;

transmitting the presentation portion of the electronic document via the communications link to the information device;

receiving input signals via the communications link from the information device; and

responding to the input signals based on the dialog instructions.

12. The computer readable media of claim 11, wherein the electronic document is written in a concise linked document language.

13. The computer readable media of claim 11, the program instructions further including translating the electronic document into a concise linked language document.

14. The computer readable media of claim 11, the input signals including DTMF signals.

15. The computer readable media of claim 11, the input signals including encoded voice signals.