AUTOMATIC DIALING OF SEARCH RESULTS

• US 20140229469A1
• Filed: 04/23/2014
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: LeBeau, Michael J., Jitkoff, John Nicholas, Byrne, William J.
• Application Number:
  US14/259,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20140229469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/724
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/25 using position of the lips, movement of the lips or face analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/15 Information service where the information is dependent on the location of the subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4935 Connection initiated by DAS system

Abstract

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for providing search results automatically to a user of a computing device. A spoken input provided by a user to a computing device is received. The spoken input is transmitted to a computer server system that is remote from the computing device. Search result information that is responsive to the spoken input is receiving by the computing device and in response to the transmitted spoken input. An alert is provided to the user that the device will connect the user to a target of the search result information if the user does not intervene to stop the connecting of the user. The user is connected to the target of the search result information based on a determination that the user has not intervened to stop the connecting of the user.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a computing system, a query that was entered at a computing device that is remote from the computing system;

identifying, by the computing system, a geographic location of the computing device;

identifying, by the computing system, a telephone number of a venue that was determined to be relevant to the query and geographically proximate to the geographic location of the computing device; and

providing, by the computing system and for receipt by the computing device, the telephone number of the venue that was determined to be relevant to the query and geographically proximate to the geographic location of the computing device, so as to cause the computing device to call the telephone number automatically.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the geographic location of the computing device includes an estimated geographic location of the computing device that was determined using information (i) encoded in wireless signals that the computing device received from one or more remote transmitting devices and (ii) that identifies the one or more remote transmitting devices.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting an animated timing display and dialing the telephone number at substantially a termination of the animated timing display.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device dialing the telephone number without the computing device having received user input subsequent to the computing device transmitting the query for receipt by the computing system.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting a prompt to dial the telephone number, to an exclusion of other telephone numbers, wherein the prompt enables dialing of the telephone number with a single-action user input.

26. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting a user interface element that, when selected with user input, causes a cancellation of the automatic calling of the telephone number and presents the other telephone numbers, or venues associated with the other telephone numbers, as being available for dialing by the computing device.

27. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting a prompt to dial the telephone number without the computing device having received user input subsequent to the computing device transmitting the query for receipt by the computing system.

28. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the telephone number of the venue is provided to the computing device in response to a determination that the query is for causing the computing device to call the telephone number automatically.

29. The computer-implemented method of claim 28, wherein the determination that the query is for causing the computing device to call the telephone number automatically includes a determination that the query includes a predefined word.

30. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein:

the query includes recorded voice information; and

the voice information was converted into a textual form of the query.

31. One or more computer-readable devices including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of operations that comprise

receiving, by a computing system, a query that was entered at a computing device that is remote from the computing system;

identifying, by the computing system, a geographic location of the computing device;

identifying, by the computing system, a telephone number of a venue that was determined to be relevant to the query and geographically proximate to the geographic location of the computing device; and

providing, by the computing system and for receipt by the computing device, the telephone number of the venue that was determined to be relevant to the query and geographically proximate to the geographic location of the computing device, so as to cause the computing device to call the telephone number automatically.

32. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein the geographic location of the computing device includes an estimated geographic location of the computing device that was determined using information (i) encoded in wireless signals that the computing device received from one or more remote transmitting devices and (ii) that identifies the one or more remote transmitting devices.

33. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting an animated timing display and dialing the telephone number at substantially a termination of the animated timing display.

34. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device dialing the telephone number without the computing device having received user input subsequent to the computing device transmitting the query for receipt by the computing system.

35. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting a prompt to dial the telephone number, to an exclusion of other telephone numbers, wherein the prompt enables dialing of the telephone number with a single-action user input.

36. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 35, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting a user interface element that, when selected with user input, causes a cancellation of the automatic calling of the telephone number and presents the other telephone numbers, or venues associated with the other telephone numbers, as being available for dialing by the computing device.

37. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein the computing device calling the telephone number automatically includes the computing device presenting a prompt to dial the telephone number without the computing device having received user input subsequent to the computing device transmitting the query for receipt by the computing system.

38. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein the telephone number of the venue is provided to the computing device in response to a determination that the query is for causing the computing device to call the telephone number automatically.

39. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 38, wherein the determination that the query is for causing the computing device to call the telephone number automatically includes a determination that the query includes a predefined word.

40. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 31, wherein:

the query includes recorded voice information; and

the voice information was converted into a textual form of the query.