USING VOICE-BASED WEB NAVIGATION TO CONSERVE CELLULAR DATA

• US 20160179465A1
• Filed: 09/24/2015
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: CLARK, Adam T., HUEBERT, Jeffrey K., PAYTON, Aspen L., PETRI, John E.
• Granted Patent: US 10,083,004 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1822 Parsing for meaning understanding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

Techniques disclose methods for providing voice-based web navigation through a cellular voice connection. A voice command a request to return content of a webpage having one or more topics is received via a cellular voice connection. One or more of the topics of the webpage that match the content specified in the request is identified. An audio indication of the content is returned via the cellular voice connection.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, via a cellular voice connection, a voice command representing a request to return content of a webpage having one or more topics;

identifying one or more of the topics of the webpage that match the content specified in the request; and

returning, via the cellular voice connection, an audio indication of the content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request specifies a URL for the webpage.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising, prior to receiving the voice command:

accessing the webpage via the specified URL;

extracting unstructured text from the webpage; and

identifying the topics of the webpage.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to identifying the one or more of the features of the webpage that match the content specified in the request:

converting the voice command to text input.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying one or more features of the webpage that match the content specified in the request comprises:

performing one or more NLP techniques to the converted text input to identify a specified command and a target indicating a location within the webpage; and

identifying the content based on the target.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio indication of the content is a prompt requesting a selection of one or more locations to navigate within the webpage.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a voice command representing a selection of one of the locations; and

returning an audio indication of content at the selected location.