Spoken mobile engine

• US 7,761,293 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Issued: 07/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chemtron Research LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bao Q. Tran
• Inventors: Tran, Bao Q.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lerner, Martin
• Application Number:
  US11/369,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20070207821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275, 704/231, 704/236, 705/14, 705/27, 705/14.12, 705/14.49
• US Class Current: 704/231
• 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 system, comprising:

a cellular short message center;

a game engine coupled to the message center; and

a mobile device wirelessly coupled to the message center, wherein the game engine specifies one or more meeting locations,

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;

improves voice recognition accuracy with one or more disambiguating symbols transmitted with the speech symbols including location related symbols, wherein the engine analyzes music clips or videos in a multimedia data stream and prepares a summary of each music clip or video including relevant image, music or video information and plays music or micro-chunks of video in accordance with a search engine or a game engine instruction to provide better gaming enjoyment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the engine receives location information of the mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the engine considers a point of interest and user history for recognition.

4. The system of claim 1 comprising a digital camera to take one or more pictures, and wherein each picture is mapped into a character model in a game.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the engine analyzes usage pattern from a population of users.

6. The system of claim 1, comprising one or more accelerometers to sense user movement.

7. The system of claim 1, 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.

8. The system of claim 1, comprising a reverse look-up of an incoming call, wherein the engine supplements a Search Query to locate Employer, Spouse, Family, Hobby from a Search Engine and sends an SMS Message with the Search Query to the Search Engine and displays one or more Search Results from the Search Engine.

9. The system of claim 1, 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.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the automated position determination comprises triangulation based location determination.

11. The system of claim 1, comprising computer readable code to play micro-chunks of video to allow easy viewing while a user is traveling or do not have full attention on the mobile device for an extended period.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the information includes contact information, map or direction.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one meeting location comprises a location associated with an advertiser.

14. The system of claim 1, comprising computer readable code to take one or more pictures and map each picture into a character model in a game.

15. The system of claim 1, comprising computer readable code to edit a video on the mobile device.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the mobile game sends players to a physical location.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the mobile game sends directions to one of:

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

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the engine receives a zip code of a location.

19. The system of claim 1, computer readable code to perform automated position determination with triangulation based location determination.

20. The system of claim 1, comprising computer readable code to search sports, stocks, flight status, package tracking, price comparison, weather, yellow pages, movie show times, wifi hotspots, news, hotel reservations, drink recipes, jokes, horoscopes, and pickup lines categories.