Call system and method

• US 8,630,855 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IP Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Anthony Oddo
• Inventors: Oddo, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorvil, Richemond
• Assistant Examiner(s): ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US12/005,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20080154603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,216 Days
• Field of Search: 704/231, 704/251, 704/270.1
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/30 Types of network names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/154 Functional or symbolic dial plan such as license plate numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4935 Connection initiated by DAS system

Abstract

A system and method for operating a voice domain name network for use over a telephone network including the steps of a computer taking a call in which a user speaks a name. The system recognizes the spoken name. Then the system checks that the name is on a voice domain list stored in a database where the voice domain name corresponds to an Internet URL. The system creating a record registering the name as a voice domain name if the name corresponds to an Internet URL and if it is not previously registered as a voice domain name and wherein said record includes a registrant and a telephone number for the registrant. Such that future callers who call and speak the name are connected via telephone to the registrant.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for operating a voice domain name network for use over a voice telephone network including the steps of:

taking a call over the voice telephone network in which a first caller speaks a name;

recognizing the name spoken by the first caller;

determining whether the name is on a voice domain name list stored in a computer and determining whether the name corresponds to an Internet URL;

upon determining that the name corresponds to the Internet URL and that the name is not in the list, creating, based on the name, a record on the list in the computer, registering the name as a first voice domain name, wherein the record includes a listing for a registrant, the listing including a telephone number associated with the registrant and the first voice domain name;

wherein a second caller who calls and speaks the first voice domain name is connected via the voice telephone network to the telephone number associated with the registrant of the Internet URL;

wherein the step of determining whether the name corresponds to an Internet URL includes the steps of;

searching for the Internet URL on the Internet and then;

generating a voice offering over the voice telephone network to register the Internet URL for the first caller if the Internet URL is found to be unregistered and then registering the Internet URL as a domain name on the Internet.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of searching includes searching for the domain name in at least one top level domain and reporting over the voice telephone network to the first caller the availability of the domain name in the at least one top level domain.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of determining whether the name is on a voice domain name list stored in the computer includes connecting over the voice telephone network, the first caller to the registrant if the name is on the voice domain name list stored in the computer.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of recognizing the name includes the step of the computer asking the first caller to spell the name.

5. A computer system for operating a voice domain name network for use over a telephone network including:

a voice domain computer having voice recognition capability to take a call from a first caller over telephone network and to recognize a name spoken in the call;

a database connected to said computer, said database containing a plurality of voice domain names wherein each voice domain name in said database includes a corresponding Internet URL and telephone number associated with a registrant of the Internet URL, wherein the voice domain names in said database are entered into the database from voice information;

a search engine configured to search for a specific voice domain name in the plurality of voice domain names and to search the Internet for an Internet URL in response to the call and to perform a telephone routine to connect the call to the telephone number associated with the registrant;

means for offering to register the Internet URL by voice through the telephone network if said search engine fails to find the specific voice domain;

means for generating a voice offer over the telephone network to register the Internet URL for the first caller if the Internet URL is found to be unregistered on the Internet and then registering the Internet URL as a domain name on the Internet and as the specific voice domain name in said database.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein said voice domain computer automatically secures the Internet URL on the Internet prior to registering the specific voice domain and recording the telephone number of the registrant in said database.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising means for offering to sell the specific voice domain to the first caller.

8. The system of claim 5, further comprising means for spelling at least one voice domain name in the plurality of voice domain names in said database to the first caller.

9. The system of claim 5, further comprising means for stating at least one voice domain name in the plurality of voice domain names in said database to the first caller.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one voice domain name is not the specific voice domain name.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one voice domain name is not the specific voice domain name.

12. The system of claim 5, further comprising means for determining that the name spoken by the first caller is similar to but not the same as at least one voice domain name in said database and stating or spelling the at least one voice domain name to the first caller.

13. The system of claim 5, further comprising means for connecting the first caller to a live operator.

14. A computer implemented method for operating a voice domain name network for use over a telephone communication network including the steps of:

receiving a call over the telephone communication network in which a first caller speaks a name,

recognizing the name spoken by the first caller;

determining whether the name is on a voice domain name list stored in a computer and determining whether the name corresponds to an Internet URL;

upon determining that the name corresponds to an Internet URL and that the name is not on the list, creating a record in the computer registering the name as a voice domain name, wherein the record includes contact information for a registrant including a telephone number associated with the registrant of the Internet URL,

wherein a second caller on the telephone network who calls and speaks the voice domain name is connected via the telephone communication network to the telephone number associated with the registrant and wherein the step of determining whether the name corresponds to an Internet URL includes the step of;

searching for the Internet URL on the Internet and then;

generating a voice offering over the telephone network to register the Internet URL on the Internet for the first caller if the Internet URL is found to be unregistered and then registering the Internet URL as a domain name on the Internet.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the step of searching for the Internet URL includes the step of placing the caller on hold while searching for the domain name.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein said step of generating the voice offering includes instructing the first caller to connect to an Internet website where the Internet URL can be registered.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the step of generating the voice offering includes searching for the Internet URL on the Internet and reporting to the first caller the availability of the domain name in a top level domain.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein said step of determining whether the name is on a voice domain name list stored in the computer includes connecting the first caller to the registrant if the name is on the voice domain name list.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the step of recognizing the name spoken by the first caller includes the step of the computer asking the first caller to spell the name.