VOICE INTERNET SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20150134340A1
• Filed: 05/08/2012
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Allen Blaisch
• Original Assignee: Robert Allen Blaisch
• Inventors: Blaisch, Robert Allen
• Granted Patent: US 9,329,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A system and method is provided for voice activated Web based infrastructure (Voice Portal) which accepts spoken input from a variety of devices, including desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart phones, standard mobile phones, and ordinary hard-wired telephones.

Claims

1. A method, apparatus, or computer readable medium for directing an internet browsing session comprising:

activating a first web page by a user;

establishing an audio overlay control channel;

rendering a user interaction control layer;

rendering a first host audio content based on the first active web page;

activating a second web page by a user based on selection of an action in the user interaction control layer; and

activating a second web page based upon the host audio content.

rendering a second host audio content based on the second activated web page.

2. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the activating is a user click of an icon or menu item.

3. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the activating is a recognized speech utterance.

4. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the audio overlay channel comprises a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) channel.

5. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 4 wherein the audio overlay control channel is further comprised of a set of host generated speech utterances.

6. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the interaction control layer is a graphical overlay displayed on the web page.

7. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the graphical overlay is a list of actions which may be selected by the user.

8. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein a second user interaction control layer is rendered on the second web page.

9. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 8 wherein the second user interaction control layer is a graphic overlay displayed on the web page and comprises a second list of actions which may be selected by the user.

10. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 7 or claim 9 wherein the list of actions are based on the host audio content.

12. The method, apparatus, or computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the first host command list specifies a plurality of navigation options, wherein each of the plurality of navigation options is linked to a plurality of second web pages.

11. A method, apparatus, or computer readable medium for establishing an internet based connection:

activating a first web page by a user;

rendering a first multimedia content based on the first activated web page;

rendering a first host command list based on the first activated web page;

activating a second web page by a recognized speech utterance, wherein the recognized speech utterance is based on the first host command list; and

rendering a second multimedia content based on the second activated web page.

13. A method apparatus or computer readable medium for a registration of a phonetic utterance and a web interface to map such utterance to perform a specific action.

14. A method, apparatus or computer readable medium to create and maintain voice domains and a voice directory structure.

15. A complete speech activated ecosystem compromised of entry points, inter routing applications, web actions and monetization methods and exit points.

16. A method, apparatus or computer readable process for playing a video resource while caching child videos for subsequent playback.

17. A method of monetizing page views using speech dialogue.

18. A method of making computer actions available during a connected phone call by speaking phrase utterances