Telephone based search system

• US 20070208564A1
• Filed: 04/17/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MUSE Green Investments LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Available For Licensing
• Inventors: Tran, Bao
• Application Number:
  US11/405,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208564A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/254
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• 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

A system includes a telephone coupled to a wide area network; and a server coupled to the telephone over the wide area network, the server receiving a search query from the telephone; the server searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query and returning a search result to display on the telephone.

Claims

1. A method to operate a telephone, comprising:

receiving a search query from the telephone;

transmitting the search query to a search engine;

searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query;

returning a search result to display on the telephone;

selecting one search item and requesting a call back to the telephone.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising capturing a verbal search request and transmitting the verbal search request to the search engine.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the verbal search request comprises one of:

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

4. The method of claim 1, comprising designating an entity from one of the search results to call back the telephone.

5. The method of claim 4, comprising transmitting the telephone'"'"'s caller identification (Caller ID) number to the entity for calling back the telephone.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the entity pays a fee for each Caller ID.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephone comprises one of:

a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone, a cellular telephone, a WiFi telephone, a WiMAX telephone.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising providing directions to one of:

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

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the taxonomic databases comprise one or more of:

music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic.

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, comprising:

a telephone; and

a plain old telephone service (POTS) or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) central office server coupled to the telephone, the server receiving a search query from the telephone;

the server searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query and returning a search result to the telephone.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the telephone captures a verbal search request and transmitting the verbal search request to the search engine and wherein the verbal search request comprises one of:

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

13. The system of claim 11, wherein an entity associated with one of the search results is selected to call back the telephone.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the server transmits the telephone'"'"'s caller identification (Caller ID) number to the entity for calling back the telephone.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the entity pays a fee for each Caller ID.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the telephone comprises one of:

a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone, a cellular telephone, a WiFi telephone, a WiMAX telephone.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the taxonomic databases comprise one or more of:

music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic, direction.

18. A system, comprising:

a telephone;

a telephone jack coupled to the telephone and to a plain old telephone service (POTS) or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) land-line;

a server coupled to the POTS or PSTN, the server receiving a search query from the telephone;

the server searching one or more databases based on the search query and returning a search result to display on the telephone.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the server provides information to one of:

directory assistance, yellow page directory, white page directory, search engine, music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic, direction.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the server transmits the telephone'"'"'s caller identification (Caller ID) number to a third party to call back the telephone and wherein the third party pays a fee for each Caller ID.