Cell phone processing of spoken instructions

• US 9,817,820 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2012
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• 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:
  US13/453,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20120208600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,031 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 device configured to:

receive a human-perceptible input of a nearby circumstance, wherein the human-perceptible input includes a non-text visual input;

configure a wireless signal of the human-perceptible input;

transmit the wireless signal to a distal computing service for a distal computed translation of the nearby circumstance and output of the distal translation;

receive the translation wirelessly;

express the translation in a human-perceptible output, wherein the human-perceptible output includes an audible output translation of the non-text visual input;

wherein the device is configured to express the translation through another device that is intermittently local to the device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to express the translation as audible speech.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to express the translation in a modality other than audible speech.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to express the translation as a musical note.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the musical note is a representation of a term in the non-text visual input.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the human-perceptible output includes a tactilely perceptible vibration.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the translation comprises a phone number, and the device is configured to subsequently place an outgoing call to the phone number.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to express the translation by turning the device on or off at a given time.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the circumstance comprises a traffic-related warning.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the circumstance comprises existence of a nearby business.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to transmit the wireless signal directly to the distal computing service.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to transmit the wireless signal to the distal service via first and second networks.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to express the translation as a response to the non-text visual input.

14. A device configured to:

receive a human-perceptible input of a nearby circumstance, wherein the human-perceptible input includes a non-text visual input;

configure a wireless signal of the human-perceptible input;

transmit the wireless signal to a distal computing service for a distal computed translation of the nearby circumstance and output of the distal translation;

receive the translation wirelessly;

express the translation in a human-perceptible output, wherein the human-perceptible output includes a text translation of the non-text visual input;

wherein the device is configured to express the translation through another device that is intermittently local to the device.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the device is configured to express the translation as an image.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the image corresponds to a picture of a term in the non-text visual input.

17. The device of claim 14, wherein the device is configured to express the translation by reading the text translation.