System and Method for Creating Parallel Graphical Interface for Voice Menu

• US 20130108030A1
• Filed: 10/25/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shamir Shmuel Snir, Shimshon Nagar
• Original Assignee: Shamir Shmuel Snir, Shimshon Nagar
• Inventors: Nagar, Shimshon, Snir, Shamir Shmuel
• Application Number:
  US13/660,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20130108030A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/252 where a voice mode is enhanced with visual information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/08 menus for interactive user guidance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00

Abstract

A method of creating a parallel graphical interface in addition to a voice menu by an application that is running on a computerized mobile device during a phone call. When a user is initiating a phone call by the computerized mobile device to an operator, the application is recognizing the number and associating an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) code with the operator. After a session is created between the application and the operator, a parallel graphical interface is created in addition to a voice menu, according to the IVR code. The graphical interface is presented on the screen of the computerized mobile device while running the voice menu. Activity of the voice menu is synchronized with the activity of the graphical interface so the user may select options from at least one of: (i) voice menu; and (ii) graphical interface, to navigate through the IVR code. The options that were selected are transmitted to the operator.

Claims

1. A method of supplementing voice menu with graphical interface by an application that is running on a computerized mobile device, said method comprising the steps of:

activating an application by at least one of;

(i) selecting the application; and

(ii) initiating a phone call by a computerized mobile device to an operator;

associating the operator with an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) code

creating a session between the application and the operator;

supplementing a voice menu according to the IVR code with a graphical interface;

presenting the graphical interface on the computerized mobile device while running a voice menu according to the IVR code;

keeping the voice menu synchronized with the graphical interface;

selecting an option

and

wherein the activating, associating, creating, supplementing, presenting, keeping, selecting, transmitting and transferring is carried out by at least one processor on the computerized mobile device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is further comprising the step of associating the operator with an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) code by at least one of:

(i) connecting to the operator; and

(ii) retrieving the IVR from a database that is connected to the application.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is further comprise the step of selecting an option from at least one of:

(i) voice menu; and

(ii) graphical interface, to navigate through the IVR code.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is further transmitting the option that was selected to the operator.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is further transferring entered data or saved data from the application to the operator.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the operator is at least one of:

(i) Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN); and

(ii) Public Branch Exchange (PBX).

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is further enabling a chat with a service provider via the application, wherein the chat is at least one of:

(i) a video chat;

(ii) a text chat; and

(iii) a voice chat.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the operator is an Internet protocol (IP) PBX.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the initiating of the phone call by a computerized mobile device to an operator is followed by examining a number that was dialed and determining its associate IVR code, by the application.

10. An application for supplementing voice menu with graphical interface, that is running on a computerized mobile device, said application is comprising of:

a data storage of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) codes, that is connected to the application;

a graphical interface;

a voice menu according to an IVR code;

wherein the application is associating an operator with an IVR code in the data storage by at least one of;

(i) connecting to the operator; and

(ii) retrieving the IVR from the data storage,

wherein the application is initiating a session between the application and the operator,

wherein the application is supplementing the voice menu according to the IVR code with the graphical interface,

wherein the application is presenting the graphical interface on a screen of the computerized mobile device while running a voice menu according to the IVR code,

wherein the application is keeping the voice menu synchronized with the graphical interface,

wherein the application is allowing a user to select an option.

11. The application of claim 10, wherein the application is further enabling a chat with a service provider via the application, wherein the chat is at least one of:

(i) a video chat;

(ii) a text chat; and

(iii) a voice chat.

12. The application of claim 10, wherein the operator is an Internet protocol (IP) PBX.

13. The application of claim 10, wherein the initiating of the phone call by the computerized mobile device to an operator is followed by examining a number that was dialed and determining its associate IVR code, by the application.

14. The application of claim 10, wherein the application is allowing a user to select an option from at least one of:

(i) the voice menu; and

(ii) the graphical interface, to navigate through the IVR code.

15. The application of claim 10, wherein the application is further transmitting the option that was selected to the operator.

16. The application of claim 10, wherein the application is further transferring entered data or saved data from the application to the operator.

17. The application of claim 10, wherein the operator is at least one of:

(i) Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN); and

(ii) Public Branch Exchange (PBX).

18. The application of claim 10, wherein the graphic is built from a script of the voice menu that was received from the operator and is stored on the Smartphone by a converter module.

20. The application of claim 18 further comprising a module for updating the script code and change graphical interface accordingly.

19. The application of claim 19 further comprising a wizard to enable change of attributes of the graphical interface.