SPOKEN MOBILE ENGINE

• US 20110166860A1
• Filed: 07/12/2010
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chemtron Research LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: MUSE Green Investments LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Tran, Bao Q.
• Granted Patent: US 8,849,659 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/254
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0209 Incentive being awarded or redeemed in connection with the playing of a video game
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed to operate a mobile device by capturing user input; transmitting the user input over a wireless channel to an engine, analyzing at the engine music clip or video in a multimedia data stream and sending an analysis wirelessly to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method to operate a mobile device, comprising:

capturing user input;

transmitting the user input over a wireless channel to an engine,

analyzing at the engine music clip or video in a multimedia data stream and sending an analysis wirelessly to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising transmitting the speech using one of:

SMS, MMS, XHTML, WML, WAP.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising searching a taxonomic database with data on music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising analyzing usage pattern from a population of users to refine the result.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising generating speech symbol as one of:

phoneme, diphone, triphone, syllable, demisyllable, cepstral coefficient, cepstrum coefficient.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising playing a mobile game.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the mobile game sends players to a physical location.

8. The method of claim 6, comprising providing directions to one of:

a store, a retailer, a company, a venue.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the engine comprises one of:

a search engine, a game engine.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising performing automated position determination with one of:

triangulation based location determination, WiFi location determination, GPS, assisted GPS, GLONASS, assisted GLONASS, GALILEO, assisted GALILEO.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data stream is sent from the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising capturing a verbal search request and transmitting the verbal search request to the search engine.

13. The method of claim 1, comprising requesting a call back to the telephone.

14. The method of claim 1, comprising designating an entity from a search result to call back the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 14, comprising transmitting the telephone'"'"'s caller identification (Caller ID) number to the entity for calling back the telephone.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input comprises speech.

17. The method of claim 1, comprising capturing a video and editing the video on the mobile device.

18. The method of claim 1, comprising:

searching one or more taxonomic databases based on a search query;

returning a search result to display on the mobile device; and

requesting a call back to the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the engine analyzes music clips or videos in a multimedia data stream and prepares a summary of each music clip or video including relevant image, music or video information and plays music or micro-chunks of video in accordance with a search engine or a game engine instruction to provide better gaming enjoyment.

20. The method of claim 1, comprising taking a picture, and mapping the picture into a character model in a game.