Voice Initiated Network Operations

• US 20070150286A1
• Filed: 12/22/2005
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ramakrishna, Anand, Miller, Quentin, Ostlund, John
• Granted Patent: US 7,996,228 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.100
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

Embodiments of voice initiated network operations are presented herein.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

translating a voice command received via a network;

performing the translated command to form a graphical response; and

forming a communication that includes the graphical response to be communicated to a sender of the voice command over the network.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the graphical response is an email.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the graphical response is a hypertext markup language (HTML) document

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the graphical response is an instant message.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the voice command is received via a push to talk over cellular (PoC) session.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the voice command is received from a handheld client device.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the voice command is received via a voice instant messaging session.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the voice command specifies at least one operation to be performed selected from the group consisting of:

a search;

a financial transaction;

a purchasing transaction;

a file transfer;

a reservation; and

a download.

9. A method comprising:

performing a search specified by voice data received at a client as speech; and

forming a response that includes search results to be communicated over a network to the client that originated the voice data.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising converting the voice data to textual search terms.

11. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the converted voice data is understandable by a module that performs the search and the voice data is not understandable by the module.

12. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the response includes one or more items selected from the group consisting of:

an email;

text;

an html document;

an instant message;

an image; and

audible sound.

13. A method as described in claim 9 wherein the search results are automatically refined based upon a location of the client.

14. A method as described in claim 9 further comprising converting the search results from text to an audible response.

15. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the response is a real-time audible response.

16. A method as described in claim 9, further comprising performing an operation based upon additional voice data which is associated with the search results and input to the client as speech.

17. One or more computer readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a computer, direct the computer to convert voice data input via a mobile device to a textual search string for input to an Internet search engine.

18. One or more media as recited in claim 17, wherein the voice data is communicated to the internet search engine via a push to talk over cellular (PoC) session.

19. One or more media as recited in claim 17 further comprising instructions to provide the sender of the voice data with search results.

20. One or more media as recited in claim 18, wherein the search results provided to the sender are non-audible.