Apparatus for Accepting a Verbal Query to be Executed Against Structured Data

• US 20140201241A1
• Filed: 01/15/2013
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Easy Ask
• Original Assignee: Easyask
• Inventors: Wood, Richard Johnston, Bassin, Craig Steven
• Application Number:
  US13/741,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20140201241A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/243 Natural language query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries

Abstract

A computing system for converting natural language spoken queries to a mobile computing device into structured queries to be executed against a structured data store to obtain an answer to the spoken query on the portable computing device is disclosed. The computer executable instructions may comprising instructions for accepting a verbal input, communicating the verbal input to a verbal to text translation application to obtain a text query where the text query is converted into a structured language query, the structured language query is executed against a structured data store, the results from the structured language query are generated, the results are converted into a desired format for the portable computing device and the result are received in the desired format to the portable computing device where the results are displayed in the desired format on the portable computing device.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

a processor configured according to computer executable instructions,

a memory for storing computer executable instructions,

an input/output device; and

a communication apparatus;

the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for converting natural language speech into a structured query to a database and providing a result, wherein the computer executable instructions further comprise instructions for;

Accepting a verbal input from a portable computing device;

Communicating the verbal input to a verbal to text translation application to obtain a text query;

Converting the text query into a structured language query;

Executing the structured language query against a structured data store;

Receiving the results from the structured language query;

Converting the results into a desired format for the portable computing device;

Communicating the result in the desired format to the portable computing device wherein the result is displayed in the desired format on the portable computing device.

2. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for displaying the text query to a user.

3. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for allowing the text query to be modified.

4. The computing device of claim 3, further comprising computer executable code for accepting modification to the text query using text or verbal inputs.

5. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for determining characteristic of the portable computing device and using the characteristics to select the desired format.

6. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for storing the text query for future availability.

7. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for allowing the stored text queries to be reviewed and selected.

8. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for allowing the stored text queries to be modified and stored/executed.

9. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for saving the result in the memory.

10. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for communicating the result to an additional computing device.

11. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising computer executable code for reviewing past results stored in the memory.

12. A portable computing device for executing a spoken natural language query against a structured data store to return a result comprising:

a processor configured according to computer executable instructions,

a memory for storing computer executable instructions,

an input/output device; and

a communication apparatus;

the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for converting natural language speech into a structured query to a database and providing a result, wherein the computer executable instructions further comprise instructions for;

Accepting a verbal input;

Communicating the verbal input to a verbal to text translation application to obtain a text query wherein;

the text query is converted into a structured language query;

the structured language query is executed against a structured data store;

the results from the structured language query are generated;

the results are converted into a desired format for the portable computing device;

Receiving the result in the desired format to the portable computing device wherein the result is displayed in the desired format on the portable computing device.