Browser-based arrangement for developing voice enabled web applications using extensible markup language documents

• US 6,954,896 B1
• Filed: 04/25/2003
• Issued: 10/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Danner, Ryan Alan, Joshi, Satish, Dodrill, Lewis Dean, Martin, Steven J., Barban, Susan Harrow
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B.
• Application Number:
  US10/422,933
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• Field of Search: 704270-275, 704/260, 704/270.1, 715/513, 715/760, 705/57, 709/202, 709/203
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server executes the voice-enabled web application by runtime execution of a first set of extensible markup language (XML) documents that define the voice-enabled web application to be executed. The application server generates an HTML form specifying selected application parameters from an XML document executable by the voice application. The HTML form is supplied to a browser, enabling a user of the browser to input or modify application parameters for the corresponding XML document into the form. The application server inserts the received input application parameters into the XML document, and stores the document.

Claims

1. A system configured for developing an executable voice application, the system including:

a computer-based server having a means for generating for a browser a first hypertext markup language (HTML) document that specifies a form having at least one entry field for specifying an application parameter, wherein;

(1) the generating means, in response to reception from the browser of a first HTTP request having the form having said at least one entry field specifying the application parameter, inserts the application parameter specified by the at least one entry field in the first HTTP request into an XML document,

(2) the generating means selectively executing the XML document and in response performing an application operation based on the application parameter, having been inserted into the XML document from the first HTTP request, in response to a second HTTP request; and

a storage medium configured for storing the XML document.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the generating means includes means for sending the first HTML document specifying a blank form for creation of the XML document in response to an initial HTTP request specifying creation of the XML document.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the generating means includes means for specifying within the blank form a first set of entry fields configured for storing user selection inputs, a second set of entry fields configured for storing respective application responses, and a third set of entry fields configured for storing respective application response types.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the generating means further includes means for inserting application parameters from the first, second and third set of entry fields, supplied by the first HTTP request, into the XML document.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the generating means includes means for copying selected XML tag data from the stored XML document into a respective plurality of the entry fields of the first HTML document in response to an initial HTTP request specifying opening of the XML document.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the generating means includes means for overwriting the selected XML tag data with the application parameters specified by the respective entry fields in the first HTTP request.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the application parameter is a voice application parameter and the application operation is a voice application operation of the executable voice application.

8. A system configured for developing an executable voice application, the system including:

a computer-based server having an application runtime environment configured for generating for a browser a first hypertext markup language (HTML) document that specifies a form having at least one entry field for specifying an application parameter, wherein;

(1) the application runtime environment, in response to reception from the browser of a first HTTP request having the form having said at least one entry field specifying the application parameter, is configured for inserting the application parameter specified by the at least one entry field in the first HTTP request into an XML document,

(2) the application runtime environment selectively executing the XML document and in response performing an application operation based on the application parameter, having been inserted into the XML document from the first HTTP request, in response to a second HTTP request; and

a storage medium configured for storing the XML document.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the application runtime environment is configured for sending the first HTML document specifying a blank form for creation of the XML document in response to an initial HTTP request specifying creation of the XML document.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the application runtime environment is configured for specifying within the blank form a first set of entry fields configured for storing user selection inputs, a second set of entry fields configured for storing respective application responses, and a third set of entry fields configured for storing respective application response types.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the application runtime environment is configured for inserting application parameters from the first, second and third set of entry fields, supplied by the first HTTP request, into the XML document.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the application runtime environment is configured for copying selected XML tag data from the stored XML document into a respective plurality of the entry fields of the first HTML document in response to an initial HTTP request specifying opening of the XML document.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the application runtime environment is configured for overwriting the selected XML tag data with the application parameters specified by the respective entry fields in the first HTTP request.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the application parameter is a voice application parameter and the application operation is a voice application operation of the executable voice application.