Communication system and method of providing access to pre-recorded audio messages via the Internet
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1. A communication system comprising:
- a Web site server containing a page with a pre-recorded audio message;
a Web access server with communication means for accessing the Web site server via the Internet and for retrieving the pre-recorded audio message from the page in response to a valid access request;
a voice response unit in communication with the Web access server;
interface means for communicating between a telephone link and the voice response unit to generate an access request and for transmitting the pre-recorded audio message to the telephone link; and
index means for comparing the access request received via the telephone link with an index of the page, wherein the index means generates the valid access request if the access request matches the index.
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Abstract
A communication system and methods for establishing pages with pre-recorded audio messages as additions to Web sites containing standard/multimedia Web pages (or alone at Web sites with no other Web pages). The pages with pre-recorded audio messages are accessible by telephone via the Internet, but not by computers accessing the Web sites via the Internet. A user can control transmission of the pre-recorded audio message to the telephone link by a voice command or by a command entered by the telephone keypad.
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37 Claims
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1. A communication system comprising:
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a Web site server containing a page with a pre-recorded audio message; a Web access server with communication means for accessing the Web site server via the Internet and for retrieving the pre-recorded audio message from the page in response to a valid access request; a voice response unit in communication with the Web access server; interface means for communicating between a telephone link and the voice response unit to generate an access request and for transmitting the pre-recorded audio message to the telephone link; and index means for comparing the access request received via the telephone link with an index of the page, wherein the index means generates the valid access request if the access request matches the index. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for providing telephone access to a pre-recorded audio message via the Internet, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing a page with a pre-recorded audio message on a Web site server that is accessible via the Internet; establishing a Web access server with communication means for accessing the page via the Internet and for retrieving the pre-recorded audio message from the page via the Internet in response to a valid access request; providing a voice response unit in communication with the Web access server which is accessible by a telephone link; providing interface means for communicating between the telephone link and the voice response unit to generate an access request and for transmitting the pre-recorded audio message to the telephone link; comparing the access request with an index of the page; and
generating the valid access request if the access request matches the index. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for accessing a pre-recorded audio message via the Internet, comprising:
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converting the pre-recorded audio message to a digital audio source file; adding the digital audio source file to an existing Web site that contains non-audio information that can be accessed via the Internet; creating a link to the digital audio source file at the existing Web site; receiving an access request via a voice response unit in communication with a telephone link; comparing the access request with an index to the link to the digital audio source file; retrieving the digital audio source file via the Internet if the access request matches the index; converting the digital audio source file into an audio file; and transmitting the audio file to the telephone link. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A communication system for providing telephone access to pre-recorded audio messages via the Internet, comprising:
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a Web site server containing a page with a pre-recorded audio message; a Web access server with communication means for accessing the Web site server via the Internet and for retrieving the pre-recorded audio message from the page in response to an access request; a voice response unit in communication with the Web access server; interface means for communicating between a telephone link and the voice response unit to generate the access request and for transmitting the pre-recorded audio message to the telephone link; and index means for comparing an access request received via the telephone link with an index of pages containing a pre-recorded audio message, wherein the index means either generates the access request in response to a valid access request that matches an access name for an existing page containing a pre-recorded audio message or generates an access denied response in response to an invalid access request that does not match the access name for the existing page containing a pre-recorded audio message.
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37. A method for providing telephone access to a pre-recorded audio message via the Internet, comprising:
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storing a page with a pre-recorded audio message on a Web site server that is accessible via the Internet; establishing a Web access server with communication means for accessing the page via the Internet and for retrieving the pre-recorded audio message from the page via the Internet in response to a valid access request; providing a voice response unit in communication with the Web access server which is accessible by a telephone link with interface means for communicating between the telephone link and the voice response unit to generate the access request and for transmitting the pre-recorded audio message to the telephone link; and comparing an access request received via the telephone link with an index of access names for a plurality of pages which contain pre-recorded audio messages to determine if the access request matches an access name of the index and generating the valid access request only if the access request matches one of the access names of the index.
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