Method for processing audio data on a network and device therefor

• US 8,644,465 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2003
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stremawide Co.
• Original Assignee: StreamWIDE
• Inventors: Beglin, Pascal, Nadhir, Zakaria, Gaichies, Lilian Franois, Bouton, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahee, Md S
• Application Number:
  US10/536,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20060047516A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,725 Days
• Field of Search: 379/88.17, 379/258, 379 8801- 8804, 37926501-2661, 379/88.16, 379/88.18, 379/266.07, 704/270.1, 704/270, 709/218, 370/352, 370/526, 455/413
• US Class Current: 379/88.17
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/58 Arrangements for transferring received calls from one subscriber to another; Arrangements affording interim conversations between either the calling or the called party and a third party substation line holding circuits H04M1/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1255 where the switching fabric and the switching logic are decomposed such as in Media Gateway Control
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1295 Details of dual tone multiple frequency signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/45 using multi-frequency signalling H04Q1/46 takes precedence

Abstract

A method of processing a data stream comprising audio data exchanged over a network between a server (SERV) and at least one telephone terminal, the data stream corresponding to a telephone call from said terminal during which a user has produced at least one event. The method comprises a step a) consisting in extracting from the stream audio data (INST2) corresponding to each event, and a step b) consisting in executing at least one task relating to the extracted audio data (INST2) and executable by a software application (AL), the software application being designed to interact with the network by using a data transmission protocol that is not specifically audio. The method further comprises a step c) of introducing into said software application (AL) at least one instruction (INST2′) relating to the extracted audio data (INST2) and adapted to activate the step b).

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied therein a computer program including instructions for causing a processor to execute at least one task relating to audio data extracted from a data stream for performing a method of processing the data stream comprising audio data exchanged over a network between a server and at least one telephone terminal, the data stream corresponding to a telephone call from said terminal during which a user has produced at least one event by pressing on at least one key of the telephone terminal, the audio data corresponding to said event, the method comprising the steps of:

providing that said at least one task is executable by a non-voice-specific software application that is programmed in a language developed for applications that are not specifically voice applications, and that is for interacting with the user through the network using a data transmission protocol which is not specifically an audio protocol;

modifying said language so as to make it possible to use program elements that are specific to voice, and

adding an insertion sub-module to the non-voice-specific software application, the sub-module comprising said program elements that are specific to voice and adapted to introduce into the non-voice-specific software application an instruction relating to the extracted audio data and adapted to activate execution of said at least one task.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the non-voice-specific software application is programmed in one of PHP and Javascript.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-voice-specific software application is adapted to handle interactivity.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-voice-specific software application is adapted to handle responses to various requests made by the user.

5. The method according to claim 1, in which the non-voice-specific software application is written in a language, and in which the program elements specific to voice that are added to the non-voice-specific software application are written in the same language.

6. The method according to claim 1, in which the event is produced by the user uttering a voice command, and further comprising recognizing the uttered voice command by means of a voice recognition unit.

7. The method according to claim 1, in which the non-voice-specific software application is adapted to execute tasks that are equivalent in terms of services given to the user whether implemented over an Internet or Intranet network or over a telephone network.

8. The method according to claim 1, further including managing changes in the telephone call on the basis of non-audio data extracted from the data stream.

9. The method according to claim 1, further including using a protocol for transmitting audio data over a network to transmit output audio data over the network as delivered in response to at least one event produced by the user.