Methods for Translating a Device Command

• US 20120178432A1
• Filed: 03/21/2012
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cedar Lane Technologies Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nytell Software LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Fish, Robert D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,785 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

An item of information (212) is transmitted to a distal computer (220), translated to a different sense modality and/or language (222), and in substantially real time, and the translation (222) is transmitted back to the location (211) from which the item was sent. The device sending the item is preferably a wireless device, and more preferably a cellular or other telephone (210). The device receiving the translation is also preferably a wireless device, and more preferably a cellular or other telephone, and may advantageously be the same device as the sending device. The item of information (212) preferably comprises a sentence of human of speech having at least ten words, and the translation is a written expression of the sentence. All of the steps of transmitting the item of information, executing the program code, and transmitting the translated information preferably occurs in less than 60 seconds of elapsed time.

Claims

1. A system for operating a target device using a spoken command received by a cell phone, comprising a network distal to the cell phone that receives information derived from the spoken command, translates the information into a device command that is executable by the target device, and transmits the device command for execution by the target device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the target device is not a cell phone.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the target device is a different cell phone from the cell phone that receives the spoken command.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the target device comprises a household appliance.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the target device is wirelessly coupled to the network. computing device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the cell phone is wirelessly coupled to the network.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the network transmits the device command to the target device via the cell phone.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the target device is wirelessly coupled to the cell phone.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the target device is coupled to the cell phone using a wired connection.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the device command is rendered by the target device using an image.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the device command is rendered by the target device using text.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the device command is rendered by the target device by printing or displaying a color.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the device command is rendered by the target device using sound.