REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS

• US 20080016142A1
• Filed: 09/07/2000
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: ESDR Network Solutions LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Schneider, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 8,667,051 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/48 for recognising items expressed in broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/58 of audio determination or detection of speech characteristics in general G10L25/00; speech recognition in general G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/82 the transmission system being the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/94 Telephonic networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/84
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355

Abstract

The present invention detects indicia, identifiers, or partial URLs to mark up in real time from input sources such as that of radio, television, cable, and other sources that have a digital, analog or digital/analog signal where text can be decoded from. A device receives a broadcast and decodes text data from the broadcast signal. The data is stored and words are parsed from the stored data. The words may be matched against a table of identifiers or rules to determine whether indicia have been detected. If not and it is determined that there is more data, then the next word may be parsed from the stored data. If an identifier or the like has been detected then it may be determined whether the word is a phone number. When the word is a phone number, the number is stored in a phone cache to speed-dial, auto-dial, generate a hyperdial link, or update a phone book. If the word is not a phone number, then it may be determined whether the word is a lottery number, stock symbol and price, zip code, e-mail, domain name, weather and any other indicia types that may be detected to perform an operative function.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. :

A communication processing method comprising;

a processor dynamically generating in real-time during a broadcast one or more keywords associated to an audio signal of said broadcast while concurrently receiving and one of an analyzing and decoding at least a received portion of said audio signal by said processor; and

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performing by said processor at least one operative action with said one or more keywords to assist a user while concurrently presenting output corresponding to said audio signal to said user during said broadcast.

22. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, wherein said performing said at least one operative action with said one or more keywords includes automatically performing said at least one operative action with said one or more keywords in response to said dynamically generating said one or more keywords associated to said audio signal.

23. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, wherein said performing said at least one operative action with said one or more keywords includes providing said user with an ability to perform said at least one operative action with said one or more keywords.

24. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, wherein said performing said at least one operative action includes generating an internet search engine request corresponding to said one or more keywords and presenting results of said internet search engine request while said concurrently presenting output corresponding to said audio signal to said user.

25. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, wherein said performing said at least one operative action includes selecting and presenting at least one advertisement corresponding to said one or more keywords and presenting said at least one advertisement to said user while said concurrently presenting output corresponding to said audio signal to said user.

26. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, further including at least one of a detecting and recognizing that said one or more keywords includes at least one identifier.

27. :

The method, as set forth in claim 26, wherein said at least one identifier is a phone number and said performing said at least one operative action further includes selecting from at least one of a speed dial, auto dial, phone book, generating a hyperlink to hyperdial said phone number, and hyperdialing said phone number.

28. :

The method, as set forth in claim 26, wherein said at least one identifier is an e-mail address and said performing said at least one operative action further includes selecting from at least one of an address book and e-mail message composition window designated to send to said e-mail address.

29. :

The method, as set forth in claim 26, wherein said at least one identifier is at least one set of lottery numbers and said performing said at least one operative action further includes comparing said at least one set of said lottery numbers to a table of preselected lottery numbers.

30. :

The method, as set forth in claim 26, wherein said at least one identifier is at least one set stock symbol and said performing said at least one operative action further includes providing a stock update from said stock symbol.

31. :

The method, as set forth in claim 26, wherein said at least one identifier is at least one zip code and said performing said at least one operative action further includes selecting from at least one of an address book and detecting that a postal address precedes said zip code.

32. :

The method, as set forth in claim 26, wherein said at least one identifier is at least one domain name and said performing said at least one operative action further includes selecting from one of a bookmarking said domain name and generating a hyperlink capable of accessing a hyperlink from said domain name.

33. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, further including storing at least a portion of the audio signal in a sound cache, determining whether an identifier can be recognized from any portion of said sound cache, and performing an operative action corresponding to said identifier in response to determining that said identifier can be recognized, from said sound cache.

34. :

The method, as set forth in claim 33, wherein said determining whether said identifier can be recognized includes determining whether any portion of said sound cache resembles any portion of a sound table having stored sounds, said stored sounds resembling at least one identifier.

35. :

The method, as set forth in claim 34, wherein said stored sounds include spoken sounds of at least one top level domain.

36. :

The method, as set forth in claim 33, further including determining whether to process a remaining portion of said audio signal.

37. :

The method, as set forth in claim 21, wherein said broadcast includes a closed caption text and further including determining whether said closed caption text includes any identifiers, and performing an operative action corresponding to said identifier in response to determining that said closed caption text includes said identifier.

38. :

The method, as set forth in claim 37, wherein said performing said at least one operative action includes generating an internet search engine request corresponding to said one or more keywords relating to said closed caption text and presenting results of said internet search engine request while said concurrently presenting output corresponding to said audio signal to said user.

39. :

The method, as set forth in claim 37, wherein said performing said at least one operative action includes selecting and presenting at least one advertisement corresponding to said one or more keywords relating to said closed caption text and presenting said at least one advertisement to said user while said concurrently presenting output corresponding to said audio signal to said user.

40. :

A communication processing device including a processor comprising;

said device configured to dynamically generate in real-time by said processor during a broadcast one or more keywords associated to an audio signal of said broadcast while said audio signal is concurrently received and at least a received portion of said audio signal is one of an analyzed and decoded by said processor; and

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said device configured to perform by said processor at least one operative action with said one or more keywords to assist a user while output corresponding to said audio signal to said user is concurrently presented during said broadcast.