Methods and systems for accessing a computer resource over a network via microphone-captured audio

• US 9,344,549 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2015
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
• Inventors: Davis, Bruce L.
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN, FRANTZ B
• Application Number:
  US14/606,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20150304479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 709/225, 709/229, 455/414.1, 455/550.1, 455/420, 725/62, 725/68, 725/112
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/18 involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/16 for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0293 for accessing web services by means of a binding identification of the management service or element
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/72 using reservation actions during connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

The disclosure relates to accessing computer resources by sensing audio with a microphone. One claim recites a system comprising a software module including instructions for causing a wireless device with cell phone communication capability to: i) extract identifying data from microphone-captured audio, the microphone-captured audio captured by the wireless device; ii) obtain device information for a class of devices associated with the wireless device; iii) control communication of the identifying data and the device information; and iv) control a user interface to provide access to a computer resource based on a service provided by said software module in response to communication of the identifying data and the device information, in which the service is configured to provide access in response to audio prompting, and in which said software module is configured to direct access of the wireless device according to the service; and a network resource comprising a data registry, the data registry providing a correlation between identifying data, device information and response information, the network resource configured to provide the service to said software module including providing the response information to said software module, the response information being associated with the identifying data and the device information. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided as well.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a software module comprising instructions for causing a wireless device with cell phone communication capability to;

i) extract identifying data from microphone-captured audio, the microphone-captured audio captured by the wireless device;

ii) obtain device information for a class of devices associated with the wireless device;

iii) control communication of the identifying data and the device information; and

iv) control a user interface to provide access to a computer resource based on a service provided by said software module in response to communication of the identifying data and the device information, in which the service is configured to provide access in response to audio prompting, and in which said software module is configured to direct access of the wireless device according to the service; and

a network resource comprising a data registry, the data registry providing a correlation between identifying data, device information and response information, the network resource configured to provide the service to said software module including providing the response information to said software module, the response information being associated with the identifying data and the device information.

2. The system of claim 1 in which said software module is configured to direct access by limiting the wireless device according to the response information.

3. The system of claim 1 in which said data registry includes navigation privileges associated with the device information, and in which the service comprises providing the navigation privileges to said software module.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the service comprises an identifying data-to-link look-up service.

5. The system of claim 1 in which the response information comprises a URL.

6. The system of claim 1 in which the software module is configured to direct access by restricting access to the third party computer resource based on the service received by said software module.

8. The system of claim 1 in which the audio comprises encoded audio comprising digital watermarking, and in which the identifying data is extracted using digital watermark decoding.

7. The system of clam 1 in which the service restricts access of the wireless device through the correlation between identifying data, device information and response information.

9. One or more non-transitory computer readable mediums comprising instructions stored thereon to cause one or more processors to:

decode identifying data from microphone-captured audio, the microphone-captured audio captured by a wireless device, in which the wireless device comprising a microphone captured the microphone-captured audio, the wireless device comprising cell phone communication capability;

obtain device information for a class of devices associated with the wireless device;

cause communication of the identifying data and the device information to a network resource;

control a user interface to provide access to a computer resource based on a service provided in response to communication of the identifying data and the device information, in which the service is configured to provide access in response to audio prompting, and in which access of the wireless device is directed according to the service; and

control a network resource comprising a data registry, the data registry providing a correlation between identifying data, device information and response information, the network resource configured to provide the service including providing the response information, the response information being associated with the identifying data and the device information.

10. The one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums of claim 9 in which the directing access limits access of the wireless device according to the sponsored link.

11. The one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums of claim 9 in which the data registry includes navigation privileges associated with the device information, and in which the service comprises providing the navigation privilege.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums of claim 9 in which the service comprises an identifying data-to-link look-up service.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums of claim 9 in which the directing access restricts access to a third party computer resource based on the service.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums of claim 13 in which the service restricts access of the wireless device through the correlation between identifying data, device information and response information.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums of claim 9, in which the audio comprises encoded audio comprising digital watermarking, further comprising instructions for decoding the digital watermarking.

16. A system comprising:

an extractor for extracting identifying data from microphone-captured audio, the microphone-captured audio captured by a microphone of a wireless device;

memory storing device information for a class of devices associated with the wireless device;

a processor for controlling communication of the identifying data and the device information; and

a user interface to provide access to a computer resource based on a service received in response to communication of the identifying data and the device information, in which the service is configured to provide access in response to audio prompting, and in which access of the wireless device is directed according to the service, and

a controller for directing access of the wireless device according to the service; and

a network resource comprising memory for storing a correlation between identifying data, device information and response information, the network resource further comprising a module providing the service including providing the response information, the response information being associated with the identifying data and the device information.

17. The system of claim 16 in which said controller comprises a module for limiting the wireless device according to the response information.

18. The system of claim 16 in which said memory includes navigation privileges associated with the device information, and in which the service comprises providing the navigation privileges.

19. The system of claim 16 in which the service comprises an identifying data-to-link look-up service.

20. The system of claim 16 in which the response information comprises a URL.

21. The system of claim 16 in which said extractor comprises a digital watermark decoder.