Presentation of data based on user input

• US 20040176954A1
• Filed: 03/05/2003
• Published: 09/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Kuansan
• Granted Patent: US 7,548,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/254
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method of rendering information to a user based on a voice query as provided. The method includes identifying a first object and a second object from an utterance of speech. The first object and the second object are associated with tags that correspond to stored information. The stored information is selectively rendered based on the first object and the second object.

Claims

1. A method of rendering information to a user based on a query, comprising:

identifying a first object and a second object from the query;

associating the first object and the second object with tags corresponding to a portion of stored information to be rendered; and

selectively rendering the portion of stored information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first object and the second object is a query object containing information pertaining to a tag corresponding to stored information.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first object and the second object is a navigation object containing information to navigate within the stored information.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first object and the second object is a command object containing information for performing a selected command on the stored information.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying includes using a language model to identify the first object and the second object.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein identifying further includes using a style control to recognize alternative phrases for the first object and the second object.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the stored information is arranged in a multi-dimensional structure and wherein at least one of the first object and the second object correspond to at least one dimension in the multi-dimensional structure.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the multi-dimensional structure is a table including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns and wherein the first object includes information pertaining to a particular row and the second object includes information pertaining to a particular column.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein selectively rendering the portion of stored information is based on at least one of the first object and the second object.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein selectively rendering the portion of stored information includes rendering the portion of stored information in combination with a stored context based on the first object and the second object.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the query is an utterance of speech.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the query includes handwriting input.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein selectively rendering the portion of stored information includes executing a script to render the portion.

14. A method of rendering information to a user based on a voice query, comprising:

rendering a segment of information to a user, the segment including tags corresponding to portions of the segment;

identifying at least one object from the query;

associating the at least one object with a tag corresponding to portions of the segment; and

rendering the portion of the segment corresponding to the tag.

15. The method of claim 14 and further comprising analyzing the segment to identify tags of relevant information within the segment.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the segment of information is speech data.

17. The method of claim 14 wherein the segment of information is a sentence and the tags correspond to data within the sentence.

18. The method of claim 14 wherein the segment of information is a row and the tags correspond to columns within the row.

19. The method of claim 14 wherein at least one tag corresponds to a proper name.

20. The method of claim 14 wherein at least one tag corresponds to a number.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the at least one tag corresponds to a phone number.

22. The method of claim 14 wherein at least one tag corresponds to a portion of driving directions.

23. The method of claim 14 wherein selectively rendering the portion of stored information is based on at least one of the first object and the second object.

24. The method of claim 14 wherein selectively rendering the portion of stored information includes rendering the portion of stored information in combination with a stored context based on the first object and the second object.

25. The method of claim 14 wherein the query is an utterance of speech.

26. The method of claim 14 wherein the query includes handwriting input.

27. The method of claim 14 wherein selectively rendering the portion includes executing a script.

28. A method of providing information to a user, comprising:

processing text to provide identifiers that correspond to portions of information within the text;

identifying an object within a user input, the object pertaining to an identifier of information; and

selectively rendering a portion of the information within the text based on the object and the identifier.

29. A method for providing information to a user, comprising:

identifying a first object, a second object and a command object from a user input;

associating the first object and the second object with tags corresponding to a first portion of stored information and a second portion of stored information; and

performing an operation with the first portion and the second portion based on the command object to render information.

30. A computer readable media including instructions readable by a computing device which, when implemented, cause the computing device to handle information by performing steps comprising:

establishing a language model to identify a first object and a second object from a user input;

processing tags to associate the first object and the second object with a portion of stored information; and

selectively rendering the portion of stored information.

31. The computer readable media of claim 30 wherein the steps are embodied as a markup language.

32. The computer readable media of claim 30 and further comprising a data structure containing the tags and the stored information.

33. A computer readable media including instructions readable by a computing device which, when implemented, cause the computing device to handle information by performing steps comprising:

processing text to provide identifiers of portions of information within the text;

establishing a language model to identify objects corresponding to the portions;

processing tags to associate the objects with the portions; and

selectively rendering the portions of stored information.

34. The computer readable media of claim 33 wherein the steps are embodied as a markup language.

35. The computer readable media of claim 33 and further comprising a data structure containing the tags and the stored information.