Method and apparatus for accessing and interacting with an internet web page

• US 7,801,112 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2001
• Issued: 09/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nokia of America Corporation (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vu, Vinh Thanh, Herrmann, Richard Louis, Tewarson, Sunil K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong; Frank
• Application Number:
  US09/994,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20020034177A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,221 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 370/354, 370/355, 370/410, 370/467, 370/522, 379 87- 89, 379/93.09, 379/93.13, 704/3, 704/9, 704/277, 709/230, 709/231
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A facility is provided for interfacing the Internet with a telecommunications network and vice versa so that a user who does not have access to the Internet may, nevertheless, provide a Web page and update the Web page via the telecommunications network and so that a user may access the telecommunications network via the Internet.

Claims

1. A service platform connected to the Internet and to a telecommunications network comprising:

first apparatus for interfacing said service platform with the Internet so that a first user may access the telecommunications network via the Internet, and, responsive to receipt of a request from said first user to broadcast text received from said first user via the Internet to a number of identified telephone numbers, for converting the text to audible speech, placing a telephone call in turn to each of the identified telephone numbers, transmitting the audible speech over an associated call connection if the call is answered or reattempting the placing of that call at a later time if the call is not answered,

and

second apparatus for interfacing said service platform with the telecommunications network so that a second user may access the Internet via the telecommunications network.

2. The service platform of claim 1, said first apparatus, responsive to receipt of a request from said first user to broadcast text that is entered by said first user via the Internet to a number of identified telephone numbers,

for further converting the text to speech, placing a call to said first user and transmitting the converted speech to the first user so that the first user may approve the transmission of the speech to said each of the identified telephone numbers.

3. The service platform of claim 2, said first apparatus, responsive to the first user not approving the converted speech, for further transmitting via the Internet a request to the first user to re-enter the text.

4. The service platform of claim 1, said second apparatus for further receiving a telephone call from the second user via the telecommunications network and interacting with the second user to obtain information used to change the contents of a particular Web page accessed via the Internet, said second apparatus including a third apparatus, responsive to receipt of such instructions, for accessing and changing the particular Web page in accordance with the received instructions.

5. The service platform of claim 4 wherein said instructions are uttered by said caller and wherein said second apparatus includes voice conversion apparatus for converting said uttered instructions into text for insertion in said Web page.

6. The service platform of claim 4, said second apparatus for further transmitting to second user over the associated call connection a verbal rendition of the converted text.

7. The service platform of claim 6, said second apparatus, responsive to receipt of an indication from said second user that the verbal rendition is correct, for further forwarding the converted text to a Web server to change said particular Web page in accordance with the converted text.

8. The service platform of claim 6, said second apparatus, responsive to receipt of an indication from said second user that the verbal rendition is incorrect, for further forwarding the request to the second user to retransmit the instructions.

9. The service platform of claim 4, said second apparatus, operative when said Web page has been successfully changed, for further notifying said second user via the telecommunications network.

10. The service platform of claim 1 wherein said telecommunications network is a public switched telephone network.