Telecommunication system, and switch, and server, and method

• US 7,711,567 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2001
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Knoblich, Ulf, Sienel, Jurgen, Kopp, Dieter
• Primary Examiner(s): Armstrong, Angela A
• Application Number:
  US10/069,583
• Publication Number:
  US 20020123889A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,284 Days
• Field of Search: 704/251, 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275, 704/231
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6472 Internet

Abstract

Telecommunication systems including a terminal, a switch and on Internet/Intranet having a memory for storing information blocks at locations defined by addresses, can be made more user-friendly by introducing a detector for detecting speech-recognition/non-speech recognition related parts in control signals originating from the terminal and defining the addresses or n response signals sent from memory to terminal and including said information blocks. A processor is coupled to the detector for routing, in dependence on the detection, routing (parts of) the signals to a server for either conversion of (parts of) the signals or for information purposes.

Claims

1. A telecommunication system comprising a terminal, a switch and an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, each of said control signals and said response signals comprising both speech recognition and non-speech recognition related parts, wherein said switch comprises a detector for detecting said speech-recognition and non-speech recognition related parts in said control signals and said response signals, and a processor for, in response to a detection of said speech-recognition or non-speech recognition related parts, processing said control signals and said response signals, said I-net comprising at least one of an intranet or Internet,

wherein said switch enables a simultaneous interaction with a website using both said control signal having said speech recognition related part and said control signal having said non-speech recognition related part,

said I-net information blocks are web pages being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of said response signals, and said I-net address is an Internet Protocol address of a corresponding web page,

said processor, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part in said control signals, routes said speech-recognition related part to a server for converting said speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, and in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part in a control signal, converts said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory,

said address signal converted from said speech-recognition related part is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for an Internet server and said address signal converted from said non-speech-recognition related part is a URL for an Internet server, and

the switch enables an independent use of a speech communication channel and a non-speech communication channel to navigate from a first web page to a second web page by traversing a link.

2. The telecommunication system according to claim 1, wherein the switch merges or separates said speech recognition-related parts and non-speech recognition-related parts.

3. The telecommunication system according to claim 1, wherein said terminal comprises a preprocessing unit for preprocessing said speech-recognition related parts of said control signals, and said server comprises a final processing unit for final processing said preprocessed speech-recognition related parts.

4. The telecommunication system according to claim 1 wherein said processor, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part in a response signal, routes said speech-recognition related part to said server, and in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part in said response signal, forwards said non-speech-recognition related part to said terminal.

5. A switch for use in a telecommunication system comprising a terminal, said switch and an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, each of said control signals and said response signals comprising both speech recognition and non-speech recognition related parts, wherein said switch comprises a detector for detecting said speech-recognition and non-speech-recognition related parts in said control signals and said response signals, and a processor for, in response to a detection of said speech-recognition or non-speech recognition related parts, processing said signals, said I-net comprising at least one of an intranet or Internet,

wherein said switch enables a simultaneous interaction with a website using both said control signal having said speech recognition related part and said control signal having said non-speech recognition related part,

said I-net information blocks are web pages being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of said response signals, and said I-net address is an Internet Protocol address of a corresponding web page,

said processor, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part in said control signals, routes said speech-recognition related part to a server for converting said speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, and in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part in said control signal, converts said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory,

said address signal converted from said speech-recognition related part is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for an Internet server and said address signal converted from said non-speech-recognition related part is a URL for an Internet server, and

the switch enables an independent use of a speech communication channel and a non-speech communication channel to navigate from a first web page to a second web page by traversing a link.

6. The switch according to claim 5, wherein said processor, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part in said response signals, routes said speech-recognition related part to said server, and in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part in said response signals, forwards said non-speech-recognition related part to said terminal.

7. A server for use in a telecommunication system comprising a terminal, a switch and an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, each of said control signals and said response signals comprising both speech recognition and non-speech recognition related parts, wherein said switch comprises a detector for detecting said speech-recognition and non-speech-recognition related parts in said control signals and said response signals, and a processor for, in response to a detection of said speech-recognition or non-speech-recognition related parts, processing said control signals comprising speech-recognition related parts and/or non-speech-recognition related parts, with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part, routing said speech-recognition related part to said server comprising a converter for converting said speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, and with said processing comprising, in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part, converting said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, said I-net comprising at least one of an intranet or Internet,

wherein said switch enables a simultaneous interaction with a website using both said control signal having said speech recognition related part and said control signal having said non-speech recognition related part,

said I-net information blocks are web pages being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of said response signals, and said I-net address is an Internet Protocol address of a corresponding web page,

said address signal converted from said speech-recognition related part is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for an Internet server and said address signal converted from said non-speech-recognition related part is a URL for an Internet server, and

the switch enables an independent use of a speech communication channel and a non-speech communication channel to navigate from a first web page to a second web page by traversing a link.

8. The server according to claim 7, wherein said terminal comprises a preprocessing unit for preprocessing speech-recognition related parts of said control signals, with said server comprising a final processing unit for final processing said preprocessed speech-recognition related parts.

9. A method for use in a telecommunication system comprising a terminal, a switch and at least a part of an I-net comprising a memory for storing I-net information blocks at locations defined by I-net addresses, at least parts of said I-net addresses being generated in response to control signals originating from said terminal, and at least parts of said I-net information blocks being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of response signals, each of said control signals and said response signals comprising both speech recognition and non-speech recognition related parts, said method detecting said speech-recognition and non-speech-recognition related parts in said control signals and said response signals;

and in response to a detection speech-recognition or non-speech-recognition related parts in, processing said control signals or said response signals, said I-net comprising at least one of an intranet or Internet,

wherein said switch enables a simultaneous interaction with a website using both said control signal having said speech recognition related part and said control signal having said non-speech recognition related part, and

said I-net information blocks are web pages being sent from said memory to said terminal in the form of said response signals, and said I-net address is an Internet Protocol address of a corresponding web page,

said processing, in response to a detection of a speech-recognition related part in said control signals, includes routing said speech-recognition related part to a server for converting said speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory, and in response to a detection of a non-speech-recognition related part in a control signal, includes converting said non-speech-recognition related part into an address signal destined for said memory,

said address signal converted from said speech-recognition related part is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for an Internet server and said address signal converted from said non-speech-recognition related part is a URL for an Internet server, and

the switch enables an independent use of a speech communication channel and a non-speech communication channel to navigate from a first web page to a second web page by traversing a link.