Cell Phone Processing Of Spoken Instructions

• US 20120208600A1
• Filed: 04/23/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• 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 9,817,820 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/563
• 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 wirelessly connected device having components configured to:

receive a human understandable instruction;

derive a transmissible electronic signal from the instruction;

transmit the signal to a distal service that derives a machine instruction from the signal; and

render the machine instruction in a modality other than text or speech.

2. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction in a speech modality.

3. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction in a modality other than audible speech.

4. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction as text.

5. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction as an image.

6. The wirelessly connected device of claim 5, wherein the image corresponds to a picture of a term in the speech

7. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction as a musical note.

8. The wirelessly connected device of claim 7, wherein the note is a representation of a term in the speech

9. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction as a tactilely perceptible vibration.

10. The wirelessly connected device of claim 9, wherein the machine instruction comprise text cell, and the phone renders the machine instruction by reading the text.

11. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the machine instruction comprise a phone number, which the wirelessly connected device subsequently uses to place an outgoing call.

12. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction at the wirelessly connected device.

13. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction through another device that is intermittently local to the wirelessly connected device.

14. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction by turning a device on or off at a given time.

15. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction by advising a user as to a nearby occurrence.

16. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the occurrence comprises a traffic-related warning

17. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the occurrence comprises existence of a nearby business.

18. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device transmits the signal directly to the distal service.

19. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device transmits the signal to the distal service via first and second networks.

20. The wirelessly connected device of claim 1, wherein the wirelessly connected device renders the machine instruction as a response to the audible speech.