Method and apparatus for accessing and interacting with an internet web page

• US 9,258,418 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2010
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sound View Innovations, LLC (Sound View Innovation Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Sound View Innovations, LLC (Sound View Innovation Holdings, LLC)
• Inventors: Herrmann, Richard Louis, Tewarson, Sunil K., Vu, Vinh Thanh
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Joseph T
• Application Number:
  US12/842,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20100284524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,027 Days
• Field of Search: 379/88.17, 379/88.01
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A facility is provided for interfacing the Internet with a telecommunications network and vice versa so that a user who does not have access to the Internet may, nevertheless, provide a Web page and update the Web page via the telecommunications network and so that a user may access the telecommunications network via the Internet.

Claims

1. A service platform interface between the Internet and public switched telephone network comprising:

an apparatus configured to receive a wireless connection from a wireless telephone and obtain update information via the wireless connection, and

apparatus configured to convert the update information directly into a corresponding format and update a Web page in a manner that applies content of the update information to the Web page in the corresponding format,

wherein said converting apparatus includes apparatus for transmitting to said caller over the connection a verbal rendition of the converted text, and

wherein said converting apparatus includes apparatus, responsive to receipt of an indication from said caller that the verbal rendition is correct, for forwarding the converted text to a Web server to update the identified Web page.

2. The service platform interface of claim 1 wherein said update information is uttered by a caller and wherein said apparatus includes voice conversion apparatus for converting said uttered instructions into text for insertion in said Web page.

3. The service platform interface of claim 1, wherein said converting apparatus includes apparatus, responsive to receipt of an indication from said caller that the verbal rendition is incorrect, for forwarding the request to the caller to repeat said update information.

4. The service platform interface of claim 1, wherein said converting apparatus further includes apparatus, operative when said Web page has been successfully updated for so notifying said caller.

5. A service platform interface between the Internet and public switched telephone network comprising:

an apparatus configured to receive a wireless connection from a wireless telephone and obtain update information via the wireless connection, and

apparatus configured to convert the update information directly into a corresponding format and update a Web page in a manner that applies content of the update information to the Web page in the corresponding format,

wherein said converting apparatus includes apparatus for transmitting to said caller over the connection a verbal rendition of the converted text, and

wherein said converting apparatus includes apparatus, responsive to receipt of an indication from said caller that the verbal rendition is incorrect, for forwarding the request to the caller to repeat said update information.

6. The service platform interface of claim 5 wherein said update information is uttered by a caller and wherein said apparatus includes voice conversion apparatus for converting said uttered instructions into text for insertion in said Web page.

7. The service platform interface of claim 5, wherein said converting apparatus includes apparatus, responsive to receipt of an indication from said caller that the verbal rendition is correct, for forwarding the converted text to a Web server to update the identified Web page.

8. The service platform interface of claim 5, wherein said converting apparatus further includes apparatus, operative when said Web page has been successfully updated for so notifying said caller.