Methods for using a speech to obtain additional information

• US 9,507,771 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2012
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cedar Lane Technologies Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nytell Software LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Fish, Robert D.
• Primary Examiner(s): SAINT CYR, LEONARD
• Application Number:
  US13/572,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20120310623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,572 Days
• Field of Search: 704/3, 704/246, 704/247, 704/251, 704/252, 704/271
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 system comprising software operable in cooperation with a mobile phone, within which is contained electronics configurable by the software to:

receive, by the mobile phone, human understandable speech;

transmit, by the mobile phone, the speech to a service distal from the mobile phone;

receive, by the mobile phone, an address related to a target device from the service, wherein the target device is distal from the service and the service uses the transmitted speech to return the address to the mobile phone and the service returns the address without contacting the target device;

contact, by the mobile phone, the target device based at least in part on the received address;

receive, by the mobile phone, a translation of the speech from the service, wherein the translation of the speech has a different sense modality from that of the speech; and

transmit, by the mobile phone, the received translation to the received address of the target device,

wherein the address includes information to identify the target device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the received address is not a phone number.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the received address provides access to a web page, the software triggers the mobile phone to wirelessly contact the received address.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the received address comprises a phone number.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system triggers the mobile phone to send a command to operate multiple cell phones.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the service translates the speech.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the target device is wirelessly coupled to the service.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the service further returns a command that is rendered by the target device using an image.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone can display written text and images.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the service further returns a command that is rendered by the mobile phone using voice recognition.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone can render a command by displaying a color.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the service further returns a command that is rendered by the target device using sound.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the service further returns a command that is rendered by the mobile phone using an image.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the speech is in a first language and the translation is in a second language different from the first language.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the translation includes a command that causes the target device to perform an operation upon the target device receiving the translation.

16. A system comprising software operable in cooperation with a mobile phone, within which is contained electronics configurable by the software to:

receive, by the mobile phone, human understandable speech;

transmit, by the mobile phone, the speech to a service distal from the mobile phone;

receive, by the mobile phone, an address related to a target device from the service, wherein the target device is distal from the service and the service uses the transmitted speech to return the address to the mobile phone and the service returns the address without contacting the target device;

contact, by the mobile phone, the target device based at least in part on the received address,

wherein the system triggers the mobile phone to send a command to operate multiple cellphones;

receive, by the mobile phone, a translation of the speech from the service, wherein the translation of the speech has a different sense modality from that of the speech; and

transmit, by the mobile phone, the received translation to the received address of the target device,

wherein the address includes information to identify the target device.