System for downloading multimedia content and associated process

• US 7,519,397 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2003
• Issued: 04/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Inventors: Passet, Georges, Fournier, Jean-Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): Bhattacharya, Sam
• Application Number:
  US10/672,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20040121815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,028 Days
• Field of Search: 455/563, 455/414.1, 709/203, 709/231, 379/201.05
• US Class Current: 455/563
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for downloading multimedia content via a mobile telephony network (10) to a terminal (50; 60, 70), comprising a voice recognition device (40), a database (30) connected to the network (10) and containing multimedia files. The terminal (50; 60, 70) transmits a voice request to the voice recognition device (40) and the voice recognition device (40) interprets the request that it receives. After the request has been received and interpreted by the voice recognition device (40), one or more interpretation prompt(s) designating one or more file(s) contained in the database (30) are sent to the terminal (50; 60, 70). The terminal is able to return a prompt selected, thereby bringing about the downloading of a file corresponding to the prompt selected from the database (30) to the terminal (50; 60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10).

Claims

1. System for downloading multimedia content to a terminal (50, 60, 70) wherein the downloading is carried out via a mobile telephony network (10), the said terminal (50, 60, 70) being able to be connected to the mobile telephony network (10), said system comprising:

a voice recognition device (40),

a database (30) connected to the network (10) and containing multimedia files, the terminal (50, 60, 70) being able to transmit a voice request designating one or more file(s) contained in the database (30) emanating from the user to the voice recognition device (40) and the voice recognition device (40) is able to recognize the voice request that it receives, to convert said recognized voice request into a plurality of text requests, said text requests having most probably the same content as the recognized voice request and to return to the terminal (50, 60, 70) one or more possible text requests for confirmation by the user, the terminal being able to return one of the text request selected by the user, wherein a multimedia file corresponding to the selected text request is downloaded from the database (30) to the terminal (50, 60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10), and

wherein the voice recognition device (40) is able to generate and transmit to the terminal (50, 60, 70) a list containing several most probable text requests, the text requests being associated with probabilities of correspondence with the user'"'"'s voice request, the text requests of the list of text requests are ranked according to their order of probability.

2. System according to claim 1, wherein the text requests are transmitted to the terminal (50, 60, 70) in the form of hypertext links tied with multimedia files contained in the database (30), the user being able to activate the link corresponding to his voice request.

3. System according to claim 1, comprising means for recording the voice request.

4. System according to claim 1, wherein the terminal (50) is a mobile terminal having a voice channel and/or a data channel.

5. System according to claim 1, wherein the terminal (50) includes an Internet browser.

6. System according to claim 1, comprising means for activating or deactivating the mode of operation with confirmation to the terminal (50, 60, 70) and:

in the case where this mode of operation is activated, the voice recognition device (40) is able to return one or more text request(s) to the terminal (50, 60, 70),

in the case where this mode of operation is deactivated, the voice recognition device is able to transmit an interpretation directly to a server (50) for access to the database.

7. System according to claim 6, wherein the terminal (50, 60, 70) comprises means for measuring a parameter relating to the quality of the network and as a function of this parameter, activating or deactivating the mode of operation with confirmation.

8. System according to claim 6, wherein the means for activating or deactivating the mode of operation with confirmation to the terminal (50, 60, 70) can be actuated by a user of the terminal (50, 60, 70).

9. A process for downloading multimedia content to a terminal (50, 60, 70), wherein the downloading is carried out via a mobile telephony network (10), the said terminal being able to be connected to the mobile telephony network (10), said process comprising:

transmitting a signal by a user corresponding to a voice request designating one or more multimedia file(s) contained in a database (30) to a voice recognition device (40) from a terminal (50, 60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10),

the voice recognition device (40) recognizing the voice request, converting said voice request into a plurality of text requests, said plurality of text requests having most probably the same content as the voice request, and returning to the terminal (50, 60, 70) one or more possible text request for confirmation by the user,

selecting the text request corresponding to the voice request by the user, and downloading of a multimedia file corresponding to the selected text request from the database (30) to the terminal (50, 60, 70) via the mobile telephony network (10),

wherein the text requests are presented by the terminal (50, 60, 70) in a descending order of probability of correspondence with the voice request.

10. Process according to claim 9, wherein the voice request signal is a voice or data signal.

11. Process according to claim 9, wherein the text request is returned from the database (30) to the terminal (50, 60, 70) in the form of a text message.

12. Process according to claim 11, wherein a text request is selected by positioning a cursor over this request then by pressing an enable key of a keypad associated with the terminal (50, 60, 70).

13. Process according to claim 9, wherein the text requests are returned from the database (30) to the terminal (50, 60, 70) in the form of a voice message transmitted as a sound file or by audio streaming.

14. Process according to claim 9, wherein the user selects a text request by scrolling text requests down to the one whose selection is desired and then by pressing an enable key of a keypad associated with the terminal (50, 60, 70).

15. Process according to claim 9, wherein the user selects a text request by pressing a key of a keypad associated with the terminal (50, 60, 70) identifying this text request.

16. Process according to claim 9, wherein the user selects a text request by verbally pronouncing a reference identifying this text request.

17. Process according to claim 9, wherein the user selects a text request by positioning a stylus on a touch screen associated with the terminal, at the level of the relevant text request.

18. Process according to claim 9, wherein when none of the text requests are selected, the operation of processing the request by the voice recognition device (40) is repeated while eliminating the unselected text requests from a list of expressions that the voice recognition device (40) may recognize.

19. Process according to claim 18, wherein having recorded the voice request beforehand, the operation of processing the request by the voice recognition device is carried out on the basis of the initial recorded voice request.

20. Process according to claim 18, wherein the operation of processing the request by the voice recognition device is carried out on a new request.

21. Process according to claim 20, wherein when none of the text requests are selected, the new request is formulated in text or graphics mode.

22. Process according to claim 9, wherein a mode of operation with confirmation to the terminal (50, 60, 70) is activated beforehand.