System and method for the transformation and canonicalization of semantically structured data

• US 7,213,027 B1
• Filed: 03/21/2000
• Issued: 05/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: AOL LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kominek, John Michael, Carriere, Steven Jeromy, Woods, Steven Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): WOO, ISAAC M
• Application Number:
  US09/531,949
• Time in Patent Office: 2,597 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707/500, 707100-1041, 707200-205, 704 1- 10, 704/246, 704/247, 704/258, 704/270.1, 704/277, 715530-541
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method of transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data includes obtaining data from a network of computers, applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the data in a first data file, providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format, and generating interface specific sentences from the data in the second data file.

Claims

1. A method for transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data, the method comprising the steps of:

using a user interface having a voice portal to obtain data from a network of computers, wherein said step of using a user interface having a voice portal to obtain data comprises sending voice command to said network of computers, wherein said user interface further comprises at least one of steps of;

identifying a user with a phone number;

starting a new session for said user;

adding a new interaction;

updating a preference of said user within a domain;

enabling said preference of said user within said domain;

disabling said preference of said user within said domain;

updating an expertise level of said user;

updating personal information of said user;

updating session state of said user;

adding credit card information of said user; and

updating said credit card information of said user;

applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the obtained data in a first data file;

providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format; and

generating grammatical sentences from the obtained data according to a specific user interface in the second data file.