AUTOMATED COMMUNICATION INTEGRATOR

• US 20110035220A1
• Filed: 08/05/2009
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Knapp Investment Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Opaluch, Robert E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,639,513 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces

Abstract

An apparatus includes a plurality of applications and an integrator having a voice recognition module configured to identify at least one voice command from a user. The integrator is configured to integrate information from a remote source into at least one of the plurality of applications based on the identified voice command. A method includes analyzing speech from a first user of a first mobile device having a plurality of applications, identifying a voice command based on the analyzed speech using a voice recognition module, and incorporating information from the remote source into at least one of a plurality of applications based on the identified voice command.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of applications;

an integrator in communication with said plurality of applications and having a voice recognition module configured to identify at least one voice command from a user, said integrator being further configured to integrate information from a remote source into at least one of said plurality of applications based on the identified voice command.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said voice recognition module is configured to analyze speech from the user and identify the at least one voice command based on the analyzed speech.

3. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said integrator is configured to analyze speech and identify the information based on the analyzed speech.

4. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said integrator is configured to retrieve the information from one of said plurality of applications and integrate the retrieved information into another of said plurality of applications.

5. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said plurality of applications includes at least one of an email application, a calendar application, a global positioning system (GPS) application, a text messaging application, an address book application, a navigator application, a voice messaging application, a telephone application, a web browser, and a task list application.

6. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the remote source includes a remote database and wherein said integrator is configured to integrate the information from the remote database into at least one of said plurality of applications based on the identified voice command.

7. An apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein the information is associated with a remote application and stored in said remote database.

8. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the remote source includes a mobile device and wherein said integrator is configured to integrate the information from the mobile device into at least one of said plurality of applications based on the identified voice command.

9. A system comprising:

a first mobile device having a plurality of first applications;

a remote source in communication with said first mobile device; and

wherein said first mobile device includes an integrator configured to identify at least one voice command from a user of said first mobile device and integrate information from said remote source into at least one of said plurality of first applications based on the identified voice command.

10. A system as set forth in claim 9, wherein said integrator includes a voice capture module configured to capture speech from the user of said first mobile device.

11. A system as set forth in claim 9, wherein said remote source includes a second mobile device having a plurality of second applications, wherein said integrator is configured to capture speech from a user of said second mobile device and integrate information into at least one of said plurality of first applications based on the captured speech from said user of said second mobile device.

12. A system as set forth in claim 11, wherein said integrator is configured to integrate information from at least one of said plurality of second applications into at least one of said plurality of first applications based on the identified voice command.

13. A system as set forth in claim 9, wherein said remote source includes a remote database, wherein said integrator is configured to capture the information from said remote database and integrate the information into at least one of said plurality of first applications.

14. A method comprising:

analyzing speech from a first user of a first mobile device having a plurality of first applications;

identifying a voice command based on the analyzed speech using a voice recognition module; and

incorporating information from a remote into at least one of a plurality of first applications based on the identified voice command.

15. A method as set forth in claim 14, wherein the remote source includes a second user of a second mobile device having a plurality of applications, and further comprising analyzing speech from the second user of the second mobile device.

16. A method as set forth in claim 15, further comprising identifying the information based on the analyzed speech from the second user.

17. A method as set forth in claim 15, further comprising retrieving information from one of said plurality of second applications based on the identified voice command.

18. A method as set forth in claim 17, further comprising integrating the retrieved information from one of the plurality of second applications into one of said plurality of first applications based on the identified voice command.

19. A method as set forth in claim 14, wherein the remote source includes a remote database, and further comprising accessing the information from a remote database based on the identified voice command.

20. A method as set forth in claim 19, further comprising integrating information from the remote database into at least one of the plurality of first applications.