Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Ericsson Gmbh

Bernhard Meier

Jan S Hedin

Robert Gupton

A system and method for visualizing information on a computer system by generating and displaying a number of axes on a computer monitor, selecting points along respective axes which correspond to an information entry using a mouse or any other spatially-based input device, and forming a polygonal shape therefrom, the vertices of the polygon being the respective selected points. Multiple such polygons may be serially displayed or overlaid to facilitate visualization and interpretation of the information. The system and method of the present invention are further directed to facilitating the entry, modification and storage of a record in a computer system by displaying it on a polar chart, selecting a point on the polar chart with a mouse or any other spatially-based input device, and respectively entering, modifying and storing the record.

System and method for data visualization

Voice control of a service application provided to a terminal from a remote server is distributed between the terminal and a remote application part. A relatively low power automatic speech recognition system (ASR) is provided in the terminal for recognizing those portions of user-supplied audio input that relate to terminal functions or functions defined by a predefined markup language. Recognized words may be used to control the terminal functions, or may alternatively be converted to text and forwarded to the remote server. Unrecognized portions of the audio input may be encoded and forwarded to the remote application part which includes a more powerful ASR. The remote application part may use its ASR to recognize words defined by the application. Recognized words may be converted to text and supplied as input to the remote server. In the reverse direction, text received by the remote application part from the remote server may be converted to an encoded audio output signal, and forwarded to the terminal, which can then generate a signal to be supplied to a loudspeaker. In this way, a voice control mechanism is used in place of the remote server's visual display output and keyboard input.

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