Spoken mobile engine

• US 20070207821A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chemtron Research LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Available For Licensing
• Inventors: Tran, Bao
• Granted Patent: US 7,761,293 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0209 Incentive being awarded or redeemed in connection with the playing of a video game
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed to operate a mobile device. The system includes a message center; an engine coupled to the message center; and a mobile device wirelessly coupled to the message center, wherein the engine specifies one or more meeting locations and wherein at least one meeting location comprises a location designated by an advertiser.

Claims

1. A method to operate a mobile device, comprising:

capturing user speech;

converting the user speech into one or more speech symbols;

transmitting the speech symbols over a wireless channel to an engine; and

generating a result based on the speech symbols.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising transmitting the speech symbols using one of:

SMS, MMS, XHTML, WML, WAP.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising improving recognition accuracy based on one or more disambiguating symbols transmitted with the speech symbols.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising analyzing usage pattern from a population of users to refine the result.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech symbol comprises one of:

phoneme, diphone, triphone, syllable, demisyllable, cepstral coefficient, cepstrum coefficient.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising playing a mobile game.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the mobile game sends players to a physical location.

8. The method of claim 6, comprising providing directions to one of:

a store, a retailer, a company, a venue.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the engine comprises one of:

a search engine, a game engine.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising performing automated position determination with one of:

triangulation based location determination, WiFi location determination, GPS, assisted GPS, GLONASS, assisted GLONASS, GALILEO, assisted GALILEO.

11. A system to operate a mobile device, comprising:

a message center;

an engine coupled to the message center; and

a mobile device wirelessly coupled to the message center, wherein the engine specifies one or more meeting locations and wherein at least one meeting location comprises a location associated with an advertiser.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the engine receives location information of the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the mobile device captures user speech, converts the user speech into one or more speech symbols;

transmits the speech symbols over a wireless channel to the engine; and

receives a result from the engine based on the speech symbols.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the speech symbol comprises one of:

phoneme, diphone, triphone, syllable, demisyllable, cepstral coefficient, cepstrum coefficient.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the engine analyzes usage pattern from a population of users.

16. The system of claim 11, comprising one or more accelerometers to sense user movement.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the engine comprises a search engine locating one of:

service, people, products and company and wherein the engine further refines the search with one of;

telephone area code, zip code, airport code, city, region.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the engine comprises a game engine and wherein the game engine specifies one or more meeting locations for the game.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the mobile device comprises a positioning system and wherein the engine searches for one of:

services, people, products and companies based on the positioning system.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the automated position determination comprises one of:

triangulation based location determination, WiFi location determination, GPS, assisted GPS, GLONASS, assisted GLONASS, GALILEO, assisted GALILEO.