VERBAL WEB SEARCH WITH IMPROVED ORGANIZATION OF DOCUMENTS BASED UPON VOCAL GENDER ANALYSIS
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents, comprising:
- receiving verbal utterances from a user;
processing the verbal utterances using gender analysis routines, thereby determining a verbally identified gender of the user;
processing the verbal utterances using speech recognition routines, thereby determining the content of a search query uttered by the user;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query based at least in part upon the content of the search query uttered by the user;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between gender-usage data for each document in the set and the verbally identified gender of the user, the gender-usage data describing at least one of a number and frequency of users who have previously accessed the document who are of a particular gender; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the score.
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Abstract
A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents, comprising receiving verbal utterances from a user; processing the verbal utterances using gender analysis routines, thereby determining a verbally identified gender of the user; processing the verbal utterances using speech recognition routines, thereby determining the content of a search query uttered by the user; identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query based at least in part upon the content of the search query uttered by the user; assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between gender-usage data for each document in the set and the verbally identified gender of the user, the gender-usage data describing at least one of a number and frequency of users who have previously accessed the document who are of a particular gender; and organizing the documents based at least in part on the assigned score.
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21 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents, comprising:
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receiving verbal utterances from a user;
processing the verbal utterances using gender analysis routines, thereby determining a verbally identified gender of the user;
processing the verbal utterances using speech recognition routines, thereby determining the content of a search query uttered by the user;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query based at least in part upon the content of the search query uttered by the user;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between gender-usage data for each document in the set and the verbally identified gender of the user, the gender-usage data describing at least one of a number and frequency of users who have previously accessed the document who are of a particular gender; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An apparatus for organizing a collection of documents comprising:
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circuitry having executable instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations of;
receiving verbal utterances from a user;
processing the verbal utterances using gender analysis routines, thereby determining a verbally identified gender of the user;
processing the verbal utterances using speech recognition routines, thereby determining the content of a search query uttered by the user;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query based at least in part upon the content of the search query uttered by the user;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between gender-usage data for each document in the set and the verbally identified gender of the user, the gender-usage data having been determined at least in part based on at least one of a number and frequency of users who have previously accessed the document who are of a particular gender; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the score. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents, comprising:
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receiving verbal utterances from a user;
processing the verbal utterances using gender analysis routines, thereby determining a verbally identified gender of the user;
receiving a search query from a user in either a verbal or textual form;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between gender-usage data for each document in the set and the verbally identified gender of the user, the gender-usage data describing prior usage of the document by users who are of a particular gender; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the score. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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