MULTIPLE WEB-BASED CONTENT SEARCH USER INTERFACE IN MOBILE SEARCH APPLICATION

• US 20110054898A1
• Filed: 08/27/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N.
• Application Number:
  US12/870,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20110054898A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a multiple web-based content search user interface in searching for web content on a mobile communication facility comprising capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility; transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility; generating speech-to-text results utilizing the speech recognition facility; and transmitting text from the speech-to-text results along with URL usage information configured to enable a user to conduct a search on the mobile communication facility.

Claims

1. A method of searching for web content on a mobile communication facility comprising:

capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility;

transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility;

generating speech-to-text results utilizing the speech recognition facility; and

transmitting text from the speech-to-text results along with URL usage information configured to enable a user to conduct a search on the mobile communication facility.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the URL usage information is associated with a plurality of base URLs and includes at least one formatting rule specifying how search text may be combined with a base URL to form a search URL that enables a search based on the text using the mobile communications facility

3. The method of claim 2, wherein URL usage information is included for a plurality of distinct web-based search facilities.