Character data entry

• US 9,449,600 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Plantronics, Inc. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Bayley, Antony M. W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre-Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): WANG, YI SHENG
• Application Number:
  US13/915,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for entry of character data are disclosed. In one example, a user action is received at a headset input user interface. The user action is correlated to a character data previously stored. The character data is transmitted to a host device, the character data configured to be automatically entered in one or more data fields.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving a user speech at a microphone;

recognizing a content of the user speech;

correlating the content to a character data previously stored in a memory prior to receiving the user speech, the character data for input into a user interface input data field; and

automatically entering the character data previously stored in the memory prior to receiving the user speech a first data field and a second data field, wherein the character data comprises a first character string to be automatically entered into the first data field and a second character string to be automatically entered into the second data field.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein automatically entering the character data in the first data field and the second data field comprises emulating a keyboard input to automatically type the character data.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the character data from a device implementing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Human Interface Device Protocol or a Bluetooth Human Interface Device Profile.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 3, wherein the device is a Bluetooth headset operable as a Bluetooth human interface device with keyboard usage functionality to output the character data.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 3, wherein the device is a headset operable as a USB human interface device with keyboard usage functionality to output the character data.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the first data field and the second data field are displayed to a user on a web page.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the character data comprises a password.

8. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the character data comprises a first character string corresponding to a user name, a TAB key press keyboard command, and a second character string corresponding to a user password.

9. A method for operating a headset as a keyboard comprising:

receiving a user action at a headset input user interface;

correlating the user action to a character data previously stored in a headset memory prior to receiving the user action, the character data to be automatically entered into one or more user interface input data fields; and

transmitting the character data to a host device for automatic entry into a first data field and a second data field, wherein the character data comprises a first character string to be automatically entered into the first data field and a second character string to be automatically entered into the second data field.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the user action is a user speech detected at a headset microphone.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the character data is configured as an output from a keyboard human interface device.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the first data field and the second data field are displayed to a user on a browser web page at the host device.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the character data comprises a password.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the character data comprises a first character string corresponding to a headset user name, a TAB key press keyboard command, and a second character string corresponding to a headset user password.

15. A device comprising:

a communications interface;

a microphone configured to detect a user speech;

a processor; and

a memory comprising;

a word or phrase paired with a character data previously stored in the memory prior to receiving the user speech, the character data for input into a user interface input data field; and

an application program configured to transmit a human interface device protocol keyboard data over the communications interface to a computing device, wherein the application is further configured to transmit a human interface device protocol keyboard data corresponding to the character data following detection of the word or phrase in the user speech paired with the character data, wherein the character data comprises a first character string to be automatically entered into a first data field and a second character string to be automatically entered into a second data field, wherein the first data field and the second data field are associated with an application being executed at the computing device.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the communications interface is a wireless Bluetooth transceiver and the human interface device protocol keyboard data is a Bluetooth human interface device profile keyboard usage data.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the communications interface is a USB interface and the human interface device protocol keyboard data is a USB human interface device protocol keyboard usage data.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the first data field and the second data field are displayed to a user on a browser web page on a display of the computing device.

19. The device of claim 15, wherein the character data comprises a password.

20. The device of claim 15, wherein the character data comprises a first character string corresponding to a headset user name, a TAB key press keyboard command, and a second character string corresponding to a headset user password.