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

• US 8,271,286 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2011
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• 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 IRIS
• Application Number:
  US13/276,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20120035926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 336 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 voice input signal is received using at least one computing device. The voice input signal is converted into a text representation of the voice input signal. It is then determined if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of: a domain name and a messaging address. In response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name, a uniform resource identifier (URI) is generated by appending to the text representation of the voice input signal at least a top-level domain identifier. A registration status of the URI is then determined, the registration status comprising one of: registered and unregistered.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage media storing thereon computer readable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive a voice input signal;

convert the voice input signal into a text representation of the voice input signal;

determine if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of;

a domain name and a messaging address;

in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name;

generate a uniform resource identifier (URI) by appending to the text representation of the voice input signal at least a top level domain identifier; and

determine a registration status of the URI, the registration status comprising one of;

registered and unregistered.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is registered, employ the URI to access a web page from a web site associated with the URI.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is registered, provide the URI to a client device.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, create a request to register the URI.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, receive a list of URIs that are similar to the URI.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, display a list of words similar to the text representation of the voice input signal.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, send an error message to a client application.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the voice input signal comprises a human speech pattern and the text representation of the voice input signal comprises a sequence of alpha-numeric values that represent written phonemes for sounds within the human speech pattern.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the converting the voice input signal comprises:

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 is configured and arranged as a phoneme representation of the voice input signal.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 9, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

detect a pre-defined subsequence within the sequence of alpha-numeric values; and

in response to detecting the pre-defined subsequence, delete the pre-defined sub-sequence from within the sequence of alpha-numeric values.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 9 further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

combine, with the sequence of alpha-numeric values, a pre-defined sub-sequence of alpha-numeric values.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the generating the URI further comprises appending to the text representation of the voice input signal at least a second level domain identifier.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the determining the registration status of the URI comprises performing a domain name service (DNS) lookup.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive a user selection of a selected one of a plurality of top level domain identifiers, wherein the selected one of the identifiers is used to generate the URI.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for a messaging application;

generate a messaging address by combining the text representation of the voice input signal with at least a message address domain-part; and

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

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 15, further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive a user selection of a selected one of a plurality of message address domain-parts, wherein the selected one of the domain-parts is used to generate the message address.

17. A computing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

computer readable storage media tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the at least one processor, the program logic comprising;

logic executed by the at least one processor for receiving a voice input signal;

logic executed by the at least one processor for converting the voice input signal into a text representation of the voice input signal;

logic executed by the at least one processor for determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of;

a domain name and a messaging address; and

logic executed by the at least one processor for, in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name;

generating a uniform resource identifier (URI) by appending to a text representation of the voice input signal at least a top level domain identifier; and

determining a registration status of the URI, the registration status comprising one of;

registered and unregistered.

18. The computing device of claim 17, the program logic further comprising:

logic executed by the at least one processor for, in response to determining the URI is registered, employing the URI to access a web page from a corresponding web site associated with the URI.

19. A method comprising:

receiving, using at least one computing device, a voice input signal;

converting, using the at least one computing device, the voice input signal into a text representation of the voice input signal;

determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of;

a domain name and a messaging address; and

in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name;

generating a uniform resource identifier (URI) by appending to a text representation of the voice input signal at least a top level domain identifier; and

determining a registration status of the URI, the registration status comprising one of;

registered and unregistered.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

in response to determining the URI is registered, employing the URI to access a web page from a web site associated with the URI.