Audio-based wide area information system
First Claim
1. A wide area information system comprising:
- at least one server having at least one audio page, each of said at least one audio page having audio data and linked by cross-reference to at least one other audio page, and means for recognizing sound commands; and
a client communicating with said at least one server so that said audio data can be selectively transferred to said client without text or a visual interface upon said at least one server receiving said sound commands.
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Abstract
A wide area information system includes a client and at least one server on which audio data is stored. Audio data is selectively transferred to the client from the server by at least occasionally establishing a transfer connection between the server and the client. The transfer of audio data is controlled by user-selected commands and inputs that are entered via an input interface provided on the client. These commands and inputs are also transferred to the server via the at least occasionally established transfer connection between the client and the server. The audio data on the server is organized in page units that are cross-linked by way of hyperaudio links. The page units are characteristically searchable with the use of cyclically repeating directory pages of audible directory information. Finally, a data protocol is defined for enabling such an audio-based system.
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44 Claims
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1. A wide area information system comprising:
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at least one server having at least one audio page, each of said at least one audio page having audio data and linked by cross-reference to at least one other audio page, and means for recognizing sound commands; and a client communicating with said at least one server so that said audio data can be selectively transferred to said client without text or a visual interface upon said at least one server receiving said sound commands. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. In a wide area information system having at least one server, each server having at least one audio page having audio data and means for recognizing sound commands, and a client, and wherein information is stored entirely in the form of the audio page and the system is navigated without the use of text or a visual display, a method for presenting the audio data to a user comprising the steps of:
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establishing a connection from the client to the server; sending a sound request message having an identifier from the client to the server for one of said at least one audio page; receiving at the client said requested audio page having audio data identified by said message request from the server; ending said connection; and presenting, at the client, said received audio page to the user. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A system for presenting audio information to a user comprising:
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at least one server having one or more audio pages stored thereon, said audio pages having audio data and linked by cross-reference to at least one said other audio page, and means for recognizing sound commands; and a client having means for selectively requesting and receiving one of said audio pages from said server. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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