Wireless telephone with internet access

• US 20070050478A1
• Filed: 07/16/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Gough, Michael, Hickman, Paul
• Application Number:
  US11/487,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20070050478A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/247 Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use user interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2478 Telephone terminals specially adapted for non-voice services, e.g. email, internet access centralized arrangements where telephones services are combined H04M7/0024; for recording text messages H04M3/5322; for accessing Internet H04M3/4938
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2535 adapted for voice communication over an Internet Protocol [IP] network Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network equipment and services H04M7/006; implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/08 specially adapted for optional reception of entertainment or informative matter
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/39 using speech synthesis speech synthesis per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for “reading” text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the telephone user. Preferably, the access system receives TCP/IP packets from web pages accessible over the TCP/IP network and parses the HTML code of the web pages into text and non-text portions, such that the text portion can be read to the telephone user. A computer implemented process for obtaining web page information over a TCP/IP network includes implementing a connection of a telephone user to an access system that is coupled to a TCP/IP network, detecting a selection of at least one navigation command by the telephone user to access a web page accessible over the TCP/IP network, and navigating over the TCP/IP network to the web page in response to the navigation command, resulting in a verbal communication of at least some information derivable from the web page to the telephone user. A method for retrieving e-mail that was sent over a TCP/IP network includes calling from a user telephone to an access computer coupled to a TCP/IP network, providing user identification to the access computer, retrieving e-mail via the access computer that was sent over the TCP/IP network and addressed to the user, and reading the e-mail to the user of the user telephone utilizing a text-to-speech system.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A wireless telephone with Internet access comprising:

a wireless telephone body;

a keypad supported by said body and capable of providing DTMF tones;

a visual display supported by said body and capable of displaying information derived from the Internet; and

a wireless connection to the Internet.

11. A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in claim 10 wherein said keypad can be used to send at least one of commands and data to the Internet.

12. A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in claim 11 wherein said keypad uses DTMF tones to send said at least one of commands and data to the Internet.

13. A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in claim 10 wherein said wireless telephone body is a cellular telephone body, and wherein said wireless connection is a cellular telephone connection.

14. A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in claim 10 wherein said display is further capable of displaying options for accessing functionality of the Internet.

15. A wireless telephone with Internet assess wherein various alphanumeric characters can be selected by repeatedly pressing a key of said keypad.

16. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone comprising:

activating a cellular telephone having keys and a visual display;

displaying options on said visual display for Internet access;

selecting an option from said visual display; and

interacting with the Internet using keys of said cellular telephone.

17. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 16 wherein activating a cellular telephone includes turning on said telephone.

18. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 16 wherein said options include going to a webpage.

19. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 18 futher comprising providing a URL of said webpage.

20. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 16 wherein interacting includes the use of DTMF tones provided by certain keys of said cellular telephone.

21. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 16 whrein said options include a search.

22. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 21 wherien said search is conducted with an Internet search engine.

23. A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in claim 22 wherein said search includes the input of a search term.

24. A cellular telephone comprising:

means for activating a cellular telephone having keys and a visual display;

means for displaying options on said visual display for Internet access;

means for selecting an option from said visual display; and

means for interacting with the Internet using keys of said cellular telephone.

25. A cellular telephone as recited in claim 24 wherein said options include going to a webpage.

26. A cellular telephone as recited in claim 24 wherein said options include a search.