Platform for enabling voice commands to resolve phoneme based domain name registrations

• US 8,065,152 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2007
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Donuts Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Demand Media Incorporated (Graham Holdings Company)
• Inventors: Ambler, Christopher J.
• Primary Examiner(s): McFadden; Susan
• Application Number:
  US11/937,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20090125308A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270
• US Class Current: 704/270
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/025 Phonemes, fenemes or fenones being the recognition units

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards employing machine representations of phonemes to generate and manage domain names, and/or messaging addresses. A user of a computing device may provide an audio input signal such as obtained from human language sounds. The audio input signal is received at a phoneme encoder that converts the sounds into machine representations of the sounds using a phoneme representation viewable as a sequence of alpha-numeric values. The sequence of alpha-numeric values may then be combined with a host name, or the like to generate a URI, a message address, or the like. The generated URI, message address, or the like, may then be used to communication over a network.

Claims

1. A non-transitory processor readable medium storing instructions, wherein the execution of the instructions on a computing device provides for managing communications over a network by enabling actions, comprising:

receiving a voice input signal;

isolating segments of the voice input signal;

converting the isolated segments into a sequence of alpha-numeric values, wherein each of the alpha-numeric values are configured and arranged as phoneme representations of the voice input signal;

determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name based on an input from a user of the computing device;

if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name, generating a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) by appending to the sequence of alpha-numeric values at least a top level domain identifier; and

if the URI is registered, employing the URI to communicate over the network with another computing device.

2. The non-transitory processor readable medium of claim 1, wherein the actions further comprise:

if the URI is determined to be unregistered, receiving a request to register the URI.

3. The non-transitory processor readable medium of claim 1, wherein converting the isolated segments into a sequence of alpha-numeric values further comprises:

searching within the sequence of alpha-numeric values for pre-defined subsequences, and if the pre-defined sub-sequence is detected, deleting the pre-defined sub-sequence from within the sequence of alpha-numeric values.

4. The non-transitory processor readable medium of claim 1, wherein generating the URI further comprises combining with the sequence of alpha-numeric values a pre-defined sub-sequence of alpha-numeric values.

5. The non-transitory processor readable medium of claim 1, wherein the actions further comprise:

if the input or the client application status indicates that the voice input signal is to be employed for a messaging application, generating a messaging address by combining the sequence of alpha-numeric values with at least a message address domain-part; and

employing the generated messaging address as a destination address within a message header.

6. The non-transitory processor readable medium of claim 1, wherein generating the URI further comprises appending to the sequence of alpha-numeric values at least a second level domain identifier.

7. A network device to manage a mobile sharing of multimedia content, comprising:

a transceiver to send and receive data over a network; and

a processor that is operative to perform actions, comprising;

receiving, from a client device, a voice input signal;

converting the voice input signal into a sequence of alpha-numeric values, wherein each of the alpha-numeric values are configured and arranged to represent phonemes of the voice input signal;

determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name based on an input from a user of the client device;

if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name, generating a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) by appending to the sequence of alpha-numeric values at least a top level domain identifier; and

providing to the client device the generated URI for use by the client device in communicating over the network.

8. The network device of claim 7, wherein the processor is operative to perform actions, further comprising:

if the voice input signal is to be employed in a messaging client application, generating a messaging address by combining the sequence of alpha-numeric values with at least a message address domain-part; and

providing the client device the generated message address for use by the client device in communicating a message over the network.

9. The network device of claim 7, wherein if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name is determined based on a signal from the client device.

10. The network device of claim 7, wherein generating the URI further comprises deleting from the sequence of alpha-numeric values defined sub-sequences.

11. A non-transitory processor readable medium storing instructions, wherein the execution of the instructions on a computing device provides for managing communications over a network by enabling actions, comprising:

receiving a voice input signal;

isolating segments of the voice input signal;

converting the isolated segments into a sequence of alpha-numeric values, wherein each of the alpha-numeric values are configured and arranged as phoneme representations of the voice input signal;

determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name based on at least one of an input from a user of the computing device, and a status of a client application on the computing device;

if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name, generating a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) by appending to the sequence of alpha-numeric values at least a top level domain identifier;

if the URI is registered, employing the URI to communicate over the network with another computing device;

if the input or the client application status indicates that the voice input signal is to be employed for a messaging application, generating a messaging address by combining the sequence of alpha-numeric values with at least a message address domain-part; and

employing the generated messaging address as a destination address within a message header.

12. A network device to manage a mobile sharing of multimedia content, comprising:

a transceiver to send and receive data over a network; and

at least one processor that is operative to perform actions, comprising;

receiving, via the transceiver, from a client device, a voice input signal;

converting the voice input signal into a sequence of alpha-numeric values, wherein each of the alpha-numeric values are configured and arranged to represent phonemes of the voice input signal;

if the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name, generating a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) by appending to the sequence of alpha-numeric values at least a top level domain identifier;

providing, via the transceiver, to the client device the generated URI for use by the client device in communicating over the network;

if the voice input signal is to be employed in a messaging client application, generating a messaging address by combining the sequence of alpha-numeric values with at least a message address domain-part; and

providing, via the transceiver, the client device the generated message address for use by the client device in communicating a message over the network.