Voice application access

• US 8,886,546 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2011
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Ganapathy, Giri, Gurusamy, Karthikeyan, Nagarajan, Balasundaram, Bommineni, Madhu, Marupally, Mallikarjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Godblod, Douglas
• Application Number:
  US13/329,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20130159002A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 Days
• Field of Search: 704/231, 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

A system may include a mobile computing device configured to receive voice input; identify, in the voice input, a navigate command including a sequence indication; determine, based on a sequence control map, a control of a user interface corresponding to the sequence indication; and activate the control of the user interface corresponding to the sequence indication.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a mobile computing device configured to;

receive voice input;

identify, in the voice input, a navigate command including a sequence indication having an order associated with a sequence control map;

determine, based on the sequence control map, a control of a user interface corresponding to the sequence indication;

activate the control of the user interface corresponding to the sequence indication;

determine that the activated control is outside of a viewable area of the user interface; and

automatically adjust the user interface to place the activated control within the viewable area.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

identify the user interface;

access the sequence control map for the identified user interface; and

display sequence indications in the user interface according to the sequence control map.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to at least one of scroll the user interface and change a page of the user interface to adjust the user interface to place the activated control within the viewable area.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

receive content to place in the activated control; and

place the content in the activated control.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes a web page.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

identify the user interface;

determine whether a valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface;

retrieve the sequence control map from a data store if a valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface; and

create the sequence control map if no valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to map multiple forms of an application within the sequence control map.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to create the sequence control map according to a set of sequencing heuristics of the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the sequence control map comprises a plurality of controls each respectively associated with a unique sequence indicator from a plurality of sequence indicators, and wherein the sequence indication is one of the plurality of sequence that are configured to be shown as part of the user interface.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving voice input;

identifying, in the voice input by a mobile computing device, a navigate command including a sequence indication having an order associated with a sequence control map;

accessing the sequence control map to determine, by the mobile computing device, a control of a user interface corresponding to the sequence indication;

activating the control of the user interface corresponding to the sequence indication;

determining that the activated control is outside of a viewable area of the user interface; and

automatically adjusting the user interface to place the activated control within the viewable area.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying the user interface;

accessing the sequence control map for the identified user interface; and

displaying sequence indications in the user interface according to the sequence control map.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising at least one of scrolling the user interface and changing a page of the user interface for adjusting the user interface to place the activated control within the viewable area.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying the user interface;

determining whether a valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface;

retrieving the sequence control map from a data store if a valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface; and

creating the sequence control map if no valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising mapping multiple forms of an application within the sequence control map.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising creating the sequence control map according to a set of sequencing heuristics of the mobile computing device.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a software program, the software program being executable to provide operations comprising:

receiving voice input;

identifying, in the voice input, a navigate command including a sequence indication having an order associated with a sequence control map;

accessing a sequence control map to determine a control of a user interface corresponding to the sequence indication;

activating the control of the user interface corresponding to the sequence indication;

determining that the activated control is outside of a viewable area of the user interface; and

automatically adjusting the user interface to place the activated control within the viewable area.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, further providing operations comprising:

identifying the user interface;

accessing the sequence control map for the identified user interface; and

displaying sequence indications in the user interface according to the sequence control map.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, further providing operations comprising at least one of scrolling the user interface and changing a page of the user interface for adjusting the user interface to place the activated control within the viewable area.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, further providing operations comprising:

identifying the user interface;

determining whether a valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface;

retrieving the sequence control map from a data store if a valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface; and

creating the sequence control map if no valid sequence control map exists for the identified user interface.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, further comprising sequencing multiple forms of an application within the sequence control map.

21. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, further providing operations comprising creating the sequence control map according to a set of sequencing heuristics of the mobile computing device.