METHOD OF INFORMING A PERSON OF AN EVENT AND METHOD OF RECEIVING INFORMATION ABOUT AN EVENT, A RELATED COMPUTING

• US 20110026690A1
• Filed: 04/08/2008
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Agnitio s.l. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Agnitio s.l. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Garcia Gomar, Marta
• Application Number:
  US12/736,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20110026690A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/41 using speaker recognition speaker recognition per se G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/6045 Identity confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53383 Message registering commands or announcements; Greetings

Abstract

The invention refers to a Method of informing a person of an event comprising carrying out in a computing system the steps of: receiving (10) information of an event (1); determining (11) a specific person which is to be notified of the event (1); performing (12) an information action with the aim of informing the specific person of the event (1) via a telecommunications system; receiving (15) a voice utterance of a person; verifying (16) that the identity of the person coincides with that of the specific person based on the received voice utterance using biometric voice data.

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A computer-based method of informing a person of an event, comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving, at a network-connected computer, electronic information pertaining to an event;

(b) using at least some of the electronic information to determine a specific person who is to be notified of the event;

(c) performing an action, via a telecommunications system, in order to inform the specific person of the event;

(d) receiving, via a network, a voice utterance of a person; and

(e) verifying that the identity of the person from whom a voice utterance was received coincides with that of the specific person to be notified of the event;

wherein the verification step is executed on a computer using at least voice biometric data derived from the received voice utterance.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of determining the person who is to be notified comprises at least one of extracting information from the information pertaining to the event, and executing a query to a data subsystem based on the information received pertaining to the event.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of determining the person who is to be notified comprises the step of determining at least one of a name, a personal identification number, and a unique data relating to a specific telecommunications system, such as a telephone number or an IP address.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the action step comprises at least one of the following steps:

(a) performing a telephone call to a telephone number related to the person which is to be notified;

(b) sending a message by SMS and/or Email and/or Instant Messaging;

(c) sending a letter to a postal address related to the person which is to be notified;

(d) sending a fax to a fax number related to the person which is to be notified.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the action step comprises performing various attempts in a predefined order of employing various telecommunications systems, wherein preferably:

(a) a phone call to a landline telephone is executed before a phone call to a mobile telephone is intended; and

/or (b) a phone call is executed to a home or personal extension before being intended to an office extension.

23. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of transmitting information to the person concerning a desired voice utterance which preferably comprises providing text having text portions such as words, numbers or letters or combinations thereof.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein:

(a) the text comprises random text portions; and

/or

(b) the text comprises not more than three, four or five text portions;

or the text comprises more than four, five, six, eight or ten text portions;

25. The method of claim 22, further comprising the step of transmitting information to the person concerning a desired voice utterance which preferably comprises providing text having text portions such as words, numbers or letters or combinations thereof

26. The method of claim 25, wherein:

(a) the text comprises random text portions; and

/or

(b) the text comprises not more than three, four or five text portions;

or

(c) the text comprises more than four, five, six, eight or ten text portions;

27. The method of claim 19, wherein in the step of verifying the identity a statistical voice model of the person which is determined to be notified of the event is used, wherein preferably this statistical voice model is stored in the computing system.

28. The method of claim 22, wherein in the step of verifying the identity a statistical voice model of the person which is determined to be notified of the event is used, wherein preferably this statistical voice model is stored in the computing system.

29. Method of receiving information about an event comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving information about an event;

(b) receiving a text and rendering the same for a person such that the text is readable or audible;

(c) transmitting a voice utterance of a person.

30. Computing system comprising:

(a) an event reception component for receiving information of an event;

(b) a determining component for determining a specific person which is to be notified of the event;

(c) a voice utterance reception component for receiving a voice utterance of a person;

(d) a verification component for verifying that the identity of the person coincides with that of the specific person based on the received voice utterance using biometric voice data.