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Conversational portal for providing conversational browsing and multimedia broadcast on demand

  • US 7,415,537 B1
  • Filed: 04/07/2000
  • Issued: 08/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A conversational portal system, comprising:

  • a computing system comprising a conversational browser to provide a user interface that adapts an interaction dialog between the conversational portal system and a client according to one more modalities supported by the client, and wherein the conversational browser can retrieve one or more pages from an information source in response to a request from the client and serve or present the retrieved pages to the client in at least one format that is compatible with the one or more modalities supported by the client,an audio indexing system for segmenting and indexing audio and multimedia data obtained from an information source of a registered subscriber; and

    a multimedia database for storing the indexed audio and multimedia data,wherein the conversational portal maintains, for the registered subscriber, a program comprising multimedia segments in the multimedia database searchable by the client via a direct query of the indexed audio and multimedia data in the multimedia database.

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