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Enhanced media resource protocol messages

  • US 7,552,225 B2
  • Filed: 04/28/2004
  • Issued: 06/23/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for controlling, and communicating with, media processing resources, the method comprising:

  • providing a system that requests services from at least one of the media processing resources, the system being remotely located from the media processing resources;

    providing a messaging protocol for interfacing the system with the media processing resources; and

    allocating the media processing resources on a per-turn basis, wherein each turn represents a discrete speech request or work unit that a media processing resource is to process;

    wherein the messaging protocol defines a message format for requesting messages sent from the system to the media processing resources, a message format for response messages sent from the media processing resources to the system, and a message format for event messages sent from the media processing resources to the system;

    wherein each message format includes a start-line, a message header, a field delimiter indicating an end of the message header, and an optional message body;

    wherein the start-line specifies a message type and includes a call identifier that identifies a telephone number of a call requesting a media processing resource; and

    wherein the message header includes an identifier for identifying a media input and/or output source for a media processing resource.

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