System and methods for vocal commenting on selected web pages

• US 10,846,330 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2014
• Issued: 11/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Heyoya Systems Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Heyoya Systems Ltd.
• Inventors: Shilo, Nir
• Primary Examiner(s): Bowen, Richard L
• Application Number:
  US15/108,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20160321272A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,163 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/63 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

Vocal commenting system and methods for recording and playing a voice message associated with a selected internet page. The system includes a voice-commenting-management module, operatively activated on a personal device of a user, the personal device having a microphone, and a vocal-commenting-services server. The server includes a processing unit, a database unit including a comments database. The vocal commenting methods include the step of posting a voice comment, using the microphone. Upon completion of the voice comment, the voice-commenting-management module sends the voice comment to the server. The vocal commenting method further includes the steps of receiving the recorded voice comment by the server, storing the recorded voice comment in a remote storage services proving unit, analyzing the recorded voice comment thereby generating metadata associated with the recorded voice comment, and storing the metadata of the comment in a comments database.

Claims

1. A vocal commenting method for recording voice messages associated with selected internet pages using a microphone of a personal device having an activated voice-commenting-management module, the method comprising the steps of:

a) posting a voice comment via the microphone, wherein the voice comment is stored and processed by voice-commenting-management module, wherein posting the voice comment comprises the steps of;

activating said voice-commenting-management module, wherein said voice-commenting-management module activates the microphone of said personal device;

terminating voice recording by deactivating said microphone; and

sending said voice comment to said vocal commenting server;

b) storing said voice comment in a remote storage services proving unit;

c) analyzing said voice comment thereby generating metadata associated with said voice comment, the metadata including user related data including voice recognition data capable of identifying gender or mood of a user;

d) storing said metadata of the voice comment in a comments database;

e) voice recognition and classification indexing of voice comments stored in said comments database, thereby facilitating fast fetching by a target search engine;

(f) determining advertisement categories and advertisement keywords based on the user related data; and

(g) determining an advertisement based on the advertisement categories and advertisement keywords,

wherein the user flags a selected comment, and wherein said voice-commenting-management module sends the flag to said vocal-commenting-services server that records the flag with association to said selected voice comment,

wherein recordings of voice comments embedded in the selected internet pages are part of the web page, and

wherein the recording is done on the site but operatively activated on the personal device of the user.

2. The vocal commenting method of claim 1, wherein said microphone is activated for a preconfigured time interval.

3. The vocal commenting method of claim 1, wherein said microphone is deactivated after a preconfigured silent time interval.

4. The vocal commenting method of claim 1, wherein the user enters textual data associated with said voice comment.

5. The vocal commenting method of claim 4, wherein said textual data includes mandatory data, non mandatory data, or combinations thereof.

6. The vocal commenting method of claim 1, wherein said classification indexing is a cyclic process that is automatically activated every N minutes, said classification indexing comprising the steps of:

a) selecting next said voice comments;

b) analyzing said voice comments to identify all data segments contained within said selected voice comments;

c) structuring an indexed record of said selected voice comments, based on the identified data segments;

d) saving said indexed record in a respective indexed file in a remote storage services proving unit; and

e) repeating steps a)-d) for all voice comments in said comments database.

7. The vocal commenting method according to claim 1, wherein user related data further comprises pages visited by the user and voice and/or textual comments posted or accessed by the user.