ON A MOBILE DEVICE TRACKING USE OF SEARCH RESULTS DELIVERED TO THE MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20080154608A1
• Filed: 02/12/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Voice Signal Technologies Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Voice Signal Technologies Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: ROTH, Daniel L., GILLICK, Laurence S., Coughlin, James, Evermann, Gunnar
• Application Number:
  US11/673,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20080154608A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00

Abstract

A method implemented on a mobile device that includes speech recognition functionality involves: receiving an utterance that includes a search request from a user of the device; recognizing that the utterance includes a search request; sending a representation of the search request to a remote server over a wireless data connection; receiving information over the wireless data connection that is responsive to the search request; presenting the information on the mobile device; receiving an input from the user selecting an item present in the received information, the item identifying a remote resource; using the selected item to connect to the remote resource, the connection to the remote resource not involving the remote server; and sending to the remote server an indication that a connection was made to the resource identified by the selected item. The method further involves storing a log of the user'"'"'s connection to remote resources and sending the log to the server.

Claims

1. A method implemented on a mobile device that includes speech recognition functionality, the method comprising:

receiving an utterance from a user of the mobile device, the utterance including a search request;

using the speech recognition functionality to recognize that the received utterance includes a search request;

sending a representation of the search request to a remote server over a wireless data connection;

receiving information over the wireless data connection that is responsive to the search request;

presenting the received information on the mobile device;

receiving an input from the user of the mobile device, the input selecting an item present in the received information, the item identifying a remote resource;

using the selected item to connect to the remote resource, the connection to the remote resource not involving the remote server; and

sending to the remote server an indication that a connection was made to the resource identified by the selected item.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

prior to sending the indication that a connection was made to the resource, storing the indication that a connection was made to the resource in a log; and

wherein sending to the remote server the indication that a connection was made to the resource includes sending the stored log to the remote server.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein sending the log is triggered by receiving the input from the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the received information includes at least one of a search result and an advertisement and the selected item includes the advertisement.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the received information includes at least one of a search result and an advertisement and the selected item includes the search result.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a plurality of search requests, wherein the first-mentioned search request is one of the plurality of search requests;

sending a representation of a last-received search request of the plurality of search requests to the remote server over the wireless data connection; and

receiving information over the wireless data connection that is responsive to the last-received search request and responsive to the indication that a connection was made to the resource identified by the selected item.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the received input includes an utterance by the user of the mobile device and the speech recognition functionality is used to recognize the item selected by the user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes a keyboard and the item is selected via the keyboard.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes hardware that supports a graphical user interface, and the item is selected via the graphical user interface.

10. A mobile device that includes a processor system and memory storing code which when executed by the processor system causes the mobile device to perform the functions of:

receiving an utterance from a user of the mobile device, the utterance including a search request;

using speech recognition functionality to recognize that the received utterance includes a search request;

sending a representation of the search request to a remote server over a wireless data connection;

receiving information over the wireless data connection that is responsive to the search request;

presenting the received information on the mobile device;

receiving an input from the user of the mobile device, the input selecting an item present in the received information, the item identifying a remote resource;

using the selected item to connect to the remote resource, the connection to the remote resource not involving the remote server; and

sending to the remote server an indication that a connection was made to the resource identified by the selected item.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the code when executed on the processor system further causes the mobile device to perform the function of

prior to sending the indication that a connection was made to the resource, storing the indication that a connection was made to the resource in a log;

and

wherein sending to the remote server the indication that a connection was made to the resource includes sending the stored log to the remote server.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein sending the log is triggered by receiving the input from the user.

13. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the received information includes at least one of a search result and an advertisement and the selected item includes the advertisement.

14. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the received information includes at least one of a search result and an advertisement and the selected item includes the search result.

15. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the code when executed on the processor system further causes the mobile device to perform the function of:

receiving a plurality of search requests, wherein the first-mentioned search request is one of the plurality of search requests;

sending a representation of a last-received search request of the plurality of search requests to the remote server over the wireless data connection; and

receiving information over the wireless data connection that is responsive to the last-received search request and responsive to the indication that a connection was made to the resource identified by the selected item.

16. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the received input includes an utterance by the user of the mobile device and the speech recognition functionality is used to recognize the item selected by the user.

17. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the mobile device includes a keyboard and the item is selected via the keyboard.

18. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the mobile device includes hardware that supports a graphical user interface, and the item is selected via the graphical user interface.