Methods for translating a device command

• US 8,938,382 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2012
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cedar Lane Technologies Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ulloa Research LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Fish, Robert D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Saint Cyr, Leonard
• Application Number:
  US13/426,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20120179452A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

An item of information (212) is transmitted to a distal computer (220), translated to a different sense modality and/or language (222), and in substantially real time, and the translation (222) is transmitted back to the location (211) from which the item was sent. The device sending the item is preferably a wireless device, and more preferably a cellular or other telephone (210). The device receiving the translation is also preferably a wireless device, and more preferably a cellular or other telephone, and may advantageously be the same device as the sending device. The item of information (212) preferably comprises a sentence of human of speech having at least ten words, and the translation is a written expression of the sentence. All of the steps of transmitting the item of information, executing the program code, and transmitting the translated information preferably occurs in less than 60 seconds of elapsed time.

Claims

1. A mobile device configured to cooperate with a distal translation service, the mobile device programmed to:

receive a spoken command to the mobile device;

send outgoing information derived from the spoken command to the distal translation service;

receive incoming information that represents translation by the distal translation service of the spoken command; and

render the incoming information as a translation of the spoken command in at least two different modalities, wherein the translation of the spoken command has at least one of a different command modality from that of the spoken command and a different sense modality from that of the spoken command.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two different modalities is sight.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes a visual display, and the incoming information is rendered as a non-text image on the display.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two different modalities is touch.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, further programmed to render the incoming information by wirelessly sending a command signal, other than a telephone number, to a recipient device.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, further programmed to render the incoming information by sending a command signal to a recipient device using a wired connection.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the spoken command is not a telephone number.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is further configured to use the incoming information to operate a device other than the mobile device.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the at least two different modalities are different from that of the spoken command.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least two different modalities is expressed in multiple languages.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein at least one of the multiple languages includes multiple styles.

12. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein at least two of the at least two different modalities are sense modalities.

13. A mobile device configured to cooperate with a distal translation service, the mobile device programmed to:

receive a spoken command to the mobile device;

send outgoing information derived from the spoken command to the distal translation service;

receive incoming information that represents translation by the distal translation service of the spoken command; and

render the incoming information as a translation of the spoken command in a modality that is different from that of the spoken command;

wherein the different modality is expressed in multiple languages.

14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein at least one of the multiple languages includes multiple styles.

15. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the spoken command is not a telephone number.

16. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the different modality is a sense modality.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

sending, from a mobile device, outgoing information derived from a spoken command to a distal translation service;

receiving incoming information that represents translation by the distal translation service of the spoken command; and

rendering the incoming information as a translation of the spoken command in a modality that is different from that of the spoken command;

wherein the different modality is expressed in multiple languages.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein at least one of the multiple languages includes multiple styles.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the spoken command is not a telephone number.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the different modality is a sense modality.