Web server controls for web enabled recognition and/or audible prompting

• US 20040113908A1
• Filed: 04/28/2003
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Warren, Susan M., Potter, Stephen F., Galanes, Francisco M., Hon, Hsiao-Wuen, Jacoby, James D., Lecoeuche, Renaud J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,224,650 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/418
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

Web server controls are provided for generating client side markups with recognition and/or audible prompting. Three approaches are disclosed for implementation of the controls.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium having instructions, which when executed on a computer generate client side markup for a client in a client/server system, the instructions comprising:

a set of controls for rendering, each control having a first set of attributes related to visual rendering and a second set of attributes related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls relates to a grammar to use for recognition.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2 wherein said one of the second set of attributes provides a reference to a location of the grammar.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 2 wherein the grammar is for one of speech recognition, handwriting recognition, gesture recognition and visual recognition.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 4 wherein the controls relate to one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the controls relate to one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls provides instructions related to generating audible output.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7 wherein the instructions comprise text and the attribute relates to converting the text to audible output.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls relates to a location of data for audible output.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein the data comprises a prerecorded audio data file and the attribute relates to playing the prerecorded audio data file.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein the data comprises text and the attribute relates to converting the text to audible output.

12. A computer readable medium having instructions, which when executed on a computer generate client side markup for a client in a client/server system, the instructions comprising:

a first set of visual controls having attributes for visual rendering on the client device; and

a second set of controls having attributes related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting, the second set of controls using at least one of the first set of controls.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein one of the attributes for the second set of controls relates to a grammar to use for recognition.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein said one of the attributes provides a reference to a location of the grammar.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein the grammar is for one of speech recognition, handwriting recognition, gesture recognition and visual recognition.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein the first set of controls and the second set of controls relate to one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein the controls relate to one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls provides instructions related to generating audible output.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18 wherein the instructions comprise text and the attribute relates to converting the text to audible output.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls relates to a location of data for audible output.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20 wherein the data comprises a prerecorded audio data file and the attribute relates to playing the prerecorded audio data file.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 20 wherein the data comprises text and the attribute relates to converting the text to audible output.

23. A computer readable medium having instructions, which when executed on a computer generate client side markup for a client in a client/server system, the instructions comprising:

a first set of visual controls having attributes for visual rendering on the client device; and

a second set of controls having attributes related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting, the second set of controls are selectively associated with the first set of controls.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein one of the attributes for the second set of controls relates to a grammar to use for recognition.

25. The computer readable medium of claim 24 wherein said one of the attributes provides a reference to a location of the grammar.

26. The computer readable medium of claim 24 wherein the grammar is for one of speech recognition, handwriting recognition, gesture recognition and visual recognition.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 26 wherein the first set of controls and the second set of controls relate to one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the controls relate to one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls provides instructions related to generating audible output.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 29 wherein the instructions comprise text and the attribute relates to converting the text to audible output.

31. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein one of the second set of attributes for one of the controls relates to a location of data for audible output.

32. The computer readable medium of claim 31 wherein the data comprises a prerecorded audio data file and the attribute relates to playing the prerecorded audio data file.

33. The computer readable medium of claim 31 wherein the data comprises text and the attribute relates to converting the text to audible output.

34. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein one of the attributes of the second set of controls relates to an identifier of the associated control of the first set of controls to form the association.

35. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein one of the attributes relates to whether the associated control of the second set is available for activation.

36. The computer readable medium of claim 35 wherein activation relates to generating markup.

37. The computer readable medium of claim 35 wherein activation relates to execution on the client.

38. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls activates another control of the second set.

39. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls comprise:

a control for generating markup related to audible prompting of a question and for generating markup related to a grammar for recognition.

39a. a. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls comprise:

a question control for generating markup related to audible prompting of a question; and

an answer control for generating markup related to a grammar for recognition.

40. The computer readable medium of claim 39a wherein the question control activates the answer control.

41. The computer readable medium of claim 40 wherein the answer control includes a mechanism to associate a received result with one of the first set of controls.

42. The computer readable medium of claim 41 wherein mechanism includes binding the recognition value.

43. The computer readable medium of claim 42 wherein the mechanism includes issuing an event related to operation of binding.

44. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls includes means defining a command for generating markup related to a grammar for one of navigation in the markup, help with a task, and repeating an audible prompt.

45. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls includes means for defining a confirmation for generating markup related to confirming that a recognized result is correct.

46. The computer readable medium of claim 45 wherein the confirmation is activated as a function of a confidence level of the recognized result.

47. The computer readable medium of claim 46 wherein one of the controls of the second set of controls includes an attribute related to a confidence level.

48. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls includes means for defining a comparison for generating markup for comparing a recognized result with a selected value.

49. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls includes means for defining a comparison for generating markup for comparing a recognized result with another recognized result.

50. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the second set of controls includes means for maintaining a recognized result apart from the associated control of the first set of controls, said means for maintaining associating the recognized result with the control of the first set of controls.

51. The computer readable medium of claim 50 wherein the means for maintaining the recognized result includes means for indicating that the recognized result has changed.

51a. a. The computer readable medium of claim 50 wherein the means for maintaining the recognized result includes means for indicating that the recognized result has been confirmed.

51b. b. The computer readable medium of claim 50 and means for maintaining a recognized result includes maintaining a set of items for corresponding recognized results, and wherein at least some of the items are individually associated with controls of the first set of controls, and wherein states are maintained for at least some of the items, the states including if the item is empty and if the item has been confirmed.

52. A computer implemented method for defining a website application on a server in a server/client architecture, the website application providing markup to a client for performing recognition and/or audible prompting on the client, the method comprising:

defining the website application with a first set of visual controls having attributes for visual rendering on the client device with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting; and

selectively associating controls of the second set of controls with at least one control of the first set of visual controls.

53. The computer implemented method of claim 52 wherein each of the controls of the second set include an identifier attribute for identifying a control of the first set of visual controls, and wherein associating includes providing an identifier of at least one control of the first set of controls in the corresponding identifier attribute of each of the second set of controls.

54. The computer implemented method of claim 52 wherein the second set of controls includes a control related to audible prompting of a question and a grammar for recognition;

and wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes associating said control related to audible prompting of the question and the grammar for recognition with one of the controls of the first set of controls.

55. The computer implemented method of claim 54 wherein the second set of controls includes means for confirming that a recognized result is correct;

and wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes associating the means for confirming with a recognized result to be received.

55a. a. The computer implemented method of claim 55 wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes defining a confidence level for activation of said means for confirming.

56. The computer implemented method of claim 54 wherein the second set of controls includes means for generating markup related to a grammar for one of navigation on the computer, help with a task, and repeating an audible prompt;

and wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes associating said means with means for prompting a question control.

57. The computer implemented method of claim 54 wherein the second set of controls includes means for comparing a recognized result with a selected value;

and wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes associating the means for confirming with a recognized result to be received.

58. The computer implemented method of claim 54 wherein the second set of controls includes means for comparing a recognized result with another recognized result;

and wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes associating the means for confirming with a recognized result to be received.

59. The computer implemented method of claim 54 wherein the second set of controls includes wherein the second set of controls includes means for maintaining a set of items for corresponding recognized results apart from the associated controls of the first set of controls;

and wherein defining the website application with a second set of controls related to at least one of recognition and audibly prompting includes associating at least some of the items with controls of the first set of controls.