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

• US 7,233,902 B1
• Filed: 04/25/2003
• Issued: 06/19/2007
• 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): ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A
• Application Number:
  US10/422,916
• Time in Patent Office: 1,516 Days
• Field of Search: 704/1, 704/276, 704/260, 704/257, 704/270.1, 704/270, 704/275, 715/600.1, 715/500, 715/505, 715/313, 717/100, 717/126, 717/113
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• 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 method in a browser for developing an executable voice application, the method comprising:

sending a first request to a web server according to hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) for a first hypertext markup language (HTML)-based web page having a form with at least one entry field for inputting an application parameter;

receiving and displaying the form;

posting the form, including an input application parameter in the entry field that is input by a user, to a prescribed uniform resource locator (URL);

sending a second request to the web server for execution of the executable voice application based on the posted form; and

receiving a second HTML-based web page having voice application content based on the posted form.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising playing a sound file based on XML control tags within the second HTML-based web page.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising generating a menu for the user based on HTML tags in the second HTML-based web page, at least one of the HTML tags specifying the input application parameter.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the step of displaying the form includes generating a first set of entry fields configured for entry of user selection inputs, and a second set of entry fields configured for entry of respective application responses; and

the step of posting the form includes supplying the user selection inputs and the application responses input by the user.

5. A computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions for developing an executable voice application by a browser, the sequences of instructions including instructions for performing the steps of:

sending a first request to a web server according to hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) for a first hypertext markup language (HTML)-based web page having a form with at least one entry field for inputting an application parameter;

receiving and displaying the form;

posting the form, including an input application parameter in the entry field that is input by a user, to a prescribed uniform resource locator (URL);

sending a second request to the web server for execution of the executable voice application based on the posted form; and

receiving a second HTML-based web page having voice application content based on the posted form.

6. The medium of claim 5, further comprising instructions for performing the step of playing a sound file based on XML control tags within the second HTML-based web page.

7. The medium of claim 6, further comprising instructions for performing the step of generating a menu for the user based on HTML tags in the second HTML-based web page, at least one of the HTML tags specifying the input application parameter.

8. The medium of claim 5, wherein:

the step of displaying the form includes generating a first set of entry fields configured for entry of user selection inputs, and a second set of entry fields configured for entry of respective application responses; and

the step of posting the form includes supplying the user selection inputs and the application responses input by the user.

9. A user device comprising a browser executed by the user device and configured for developing an executable voice application, the browser further configured for:

sending a first request to a web server according to hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) for a first hypertext markup language (HTML)-based web page having a form with at least one entry field for inputting an application parameter;

receiving and displaying the form;

posting the form, including an input application parameter in the entry field that is input by a user, to a prescribed uniform resource locator (URL);

sending a second request to the web server for execution of the executable voice application based on the posted form; and

receiving a second HTML-based web page having voice application content based on the posted form.

10. The user device of claim 9, wherein the browser further is configured for playing a sound file based on XML control tags within the second HTML-based web page.

11. The user device of claim 10, wherein the browser further is configured for generating a menu for the user based on HTML tags in the second HTML-based web page, at least one of the HTML tags specifying the input application parameter.

12. The user device of claim 9, wherein:

the browser further is configured for the displaying of the form based on generating a first set of entry fields configured for entry of user selection inputs, and a second set of entry fields configured for entry of respective application responses; and

the browser further is configured for the posting the form based on supplying the user selection inputs and the application responses input by the user.