Voice interface to NFC applications

• US 8,849,674 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2013
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Lortz, Victor B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Shaun
• Application Number:
  US13/756,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20130144628A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275, 379/900, 379/907, 379/910, 455/563, 455/41.1, 455/3.05, 255/462.46
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/00 Speech or voice signal processing techniques to produce another audible or non-audible signal, e.g. visual or tactile, in order to modify its quality or its intelligibility G10L19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00

Abstract

Technologies for transferring Near Field Communications information on a computing device include storing information corresponding to services in a database on the computing device, receiving a voice input corresponding to a name of a requested service, and retrieving the information corresponding to the requested service from the database. Such technologies may also include loading the retrieved information corresponding to the requested service into a Near Field Communications tag emulated by the computing device and transferring the retrieved information to a portable computing device in response to the Near Field Communications tag being touched by a Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device. The information corresponding to the requested service stored in the database, retrieved from the database, loaded into the Near Field Communications tag, and/or transferred to the portable computing device may include a Universal Resource Identifier and content-specific keywords corresponding to the requested service.

Claims

1. A computing device for transferring Near Field Communications information comprising:

a database to store information corresponding to a plurality of services, the information comprises a Universal Resource Identifier and content-specific keywords associated with each of the plurality of services;

a voice recognition system to receive a voice input corresponding to a name of a requested service from the plurality of services, the voice recognition system to retrieve the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service from the database; and

a Near Field Communications component to load the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into a Near Field Communications tag emulated by the Near Field Communications component, the Near Field Communications component to transfer the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords from the Near Field Communications tag to a portable computing device in response to the Near Field Communications tag being touched by a Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device.

2. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising a display to display one or more of the plurality of services corresponding to the name of the requested service, the Near Field Communications component to load the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with a service selected from the plurality of services displayed into the Near Field Communications tag emulated by the Near Field Communications component.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of services comprises one or more of a local hotel, a restaurant, or a transportation service.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to the plurality of services comprises one or more of a phone number, a web site, or directions corresponding to one or more of the plurality of services.

5. A method for transferring Near Field Communications information comprising:

storing, by a computing device, information corresponding to a plurality of services in a database on the computing device, the information comprises a Universal Resource Identifier and content-specific keywords associated with each of the plurality of services;

receiving, by the computing device, a voice input corresponding to a name of a requested service from the plurality of services;

retrieving, by the computing device, the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service from the database;

loading, by the computing device, the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into a Near Field Communications tag emulated by a Near Field Communications component of the computing device; and

transferring, by the computing device, the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords from the Near Field Communications tag to a portable computing device in response to the Near Field Communications tag being touched by a Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving, by the portable computing device, the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords from the Near Field Communications tag emulated by the computing device using the Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device;

storing, by the portable computing device, the Universal Resource Identifier in memory of the portable computing device based on the content-specific keywords; and

retrieving, by the portable computing device, the Universal Resource Identifier from the memory of the portable computing device in response to receiving a spoken keyword, the spoken keyword corresponding to one of the content-specific keywords stored in the memory.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

displaying, by the computing device, one or more of the plurality of services corresponding to the name of the requested service; and

receiving, by the computing device, a selection of one of the plurality of services displayed,

wherein loading the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into the Near Field Communications tag comprises loading the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the selected service from the plurality of services displayed into the Near Field Communications tag.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of services comprises one or more of a local hotel, a restaurant, or a transportation service.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the information corresponding to the plurality of services comprises one or more of a phone number, a web site, or directions corresponding to one or more of the plurality of services.

10. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed result in a computing device:

storing information corresponding to a plurality of services in a database on the computing device, the information comprises a Universal Resource Identifier and content-specific keywords associated with each of the plurality of services;

receiving a voice input corresponding to a name of a requested service from the plurality of services;

retrieving the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service from the database;

loading the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into a Near Field Communications tag emulated by a Near Field Communications component of the computing device; and

transferring the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords from the Near Field Communications tag to a portable computing device in response to the Near Field Communications tag being touched by a Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the computing device:

displaying one or more of the plurality of services corresponding to the name of the requested service; and

receiving a selection of one of the plurality of services displayed,

wherein loading the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into the Near Field Communications tag comprises loading the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the selected service from the plurality of services displayed into the Near Field Communications tag.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the plurality of services comprises one or more of a local hotel, a restaurant, or a transportation service.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the information corresponding to the plurality of services comprises one or more of a phone number, a web site, or directions corresponding to one or more of the plurality of services.

14. A system for transferring Near Field Communications information comprising:

a computing device comprising;

a database to store information corresponding to a plurality of services, the information comprises a Universal Resource Identifier and content-specific keywords associated with each of the plurality of services;

a voice input to receive a spoken name of a requested service from the plurality of services;

a voice recognition interface to retrieve the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service from the database; and

a Near Field Communications component to load the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into an emulated Near Field Communications tag; and

a portable computing device comprising;

a Near Field Communications reader to receive the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords transferred from the Near Field Communications component of the computing device in response to the emulated Near Field Communications tag being touched by the Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device;

a memory to store the Universal Resource Identifier based on the content-specific keywords; and

a speech-recognition system to retrieve the Universal Resource Identifier from the memory of the portable computing device in response to receiving a spoken keyword, the spoken keyword corresponding to one of the content-specific keywords stored in the memory.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the computing device further comprises a display to display one or more of the plurality of services corresponding to the name of the requested service,

wherein to load the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with the requested service into the Near Field Communications tag comprises to load, into the Near Field Communications tag, the Universal Resource Identifier and the content-specific keywords associated with a service selected from the plurality of services displayed.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the plurality of services comprises one or more of a local hotel, a restaurant, or a transportation service.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the information corresponding to the plurality of services comprises one or more of a phone number, a web site, or directions corresponding to one or more of the plurality of services.