Foneweb, Inc.

Controlnet, Inc.

Kalpana, Inc.

Vinod K Bhardwaj

Scott England

Dean Whitlock

Roy G Batruni

Larry W Haugen

A mobile telephone is used to search the web site (or computer database) of an entity to find information such as in an FAQ. The user speaks the first few letters of a word (or the first few letters of each of a string of words) into the telephone. The spoken letters are converted into text, search words are formed and the search is sent to the web site. A match results in the answer to the question being returned to the user. Once the first letters are spelled out, the latter letters are essentially redundant, and software can figure out what the intended word is. Error correction is used if the user or speech engine makes a mistake. Confidence values are output by the speech engine when recognizing a spoken letter. The location of each letter and the number of letters spoken is taken into account when attempting a match. The search technique not only matches recognized letters, but also matches their determined location within a search word. The user is provided with a choice if there is more than one match. The user provides their preferred delivery means (voice, SMS, e-mail, facsimile, etc.) on input. Also, a Web server implements a telephone directory that may be citywide, statewide, countrywide or even global. A user speaks a few letters in order find a telephone number of a person or business.

Web site or directory search using speech recognition of letters

A message transmission system accepts a telephone call from a user who wishes to send an e-mail message, send an SMS message, perform an Internet query or retrieve his or her electronic mail. The voice call is transcribed and the message is sent, or the question in the voice call is transcribed and answered by an agent. Any number of agents connect to a central site over an Internet connection and transcribe messages or answer queries in an assembly line like fashion. In addition, a Web query delivery system accepts a query or statement from a user; the query is transcribed, classified, and then broadcast over any medium to any number of experts or web sites that desire to answer the particular type of query received. The entire query is delivered to an expert or web site who provides a full answer to the user.

Message transcription, voice query and query delivery system

A speech-to-text conversion module uses a central database of user speech profiles to convert speech to text. Incoming audio information is fragmented into numerous audio fragments based upon detecting silence. The audio information is also converted to numerous text files by any number of speech engines. Each text file is then fragmented into numerous text fragments based upon the boundaries established during the audio fragmentation. Each set of text fragments from the different speech engines corresponding to a single audio fragments is then compared. The best approximation of the audio fragment is produced from the set of text fragments; a hybrid may be produced. If no agreement is reached, the audio fragment and set the text fragments are sent to human agents who verify and edit to produce a final edited text fragment that best corresponds to the audio fragment. Fragmentation that produces overlapping audio fragments requires splicing of the final text fragments to produce the output text file.

Precision speech to text conversion

A speech service, including a speech-to-text engine and a text-to-speech engine, creates and maintains user profiles at a central location accessible over the Internet. A user connects to a software application over a mobile telephone and delivers a voice command. The speech service transcribes the voice command into a text command for the software application. The software application performs a service desired by the user and delivers a text result to the speech service that is converted into a speech result that is delivered to the user. A user speaks to a hardware device to perform a function. The hardware device sends the speech to the speech service over the Internet that transcribes the speech into a text command that is sent over the Internet to a device service provider. The device service provider maps the text command into a device command that is then sent back over the Internet to the hardware device to perform the function. A remote hardware device can be controlled using the software application.

Speech controlled services and devices using internet

An integrated module incorporates not only a cable socket, but also a chip carrier for an integrated circuit and a daughter card for discrete components. The module can be mounted on any printed circuit board, within a switch, router, hub or other network device. A network socket, one or more integrated circuits and all discrete components (resistors, capacitors, coil, etc.) are contained within the module. The functionality of a transceiver and a media access controller are split into a digital portion and an analog portion. Each of the digital and analog functionality is implemented on a separate integrated circuit and both integrated circuits are placed next to one another in the chip carrier within the integrated module. Shielding around the socket is extended to surround the entire integrated module. The metal shielding extends underneath the integrated module and contacts the copper base of the chip carrier to serve as a heat sink. Any number of integrated modules are ganged together and a single electromagnetic shield placed around all of the integrated modules. A light pipe is used in conjunction with the socket instead of traditional light-emitting diodes. A chip carrier by itself has pins bent both downward to interface to a particular device such as computer board, network switch, hub, router, etc., and pins bent upward to attach to an above daughter card. A chip carrier also contains one or more integrated circuits and a daughter card mounted on top of the chip carrier.

Integrated socket with chip carrier

Methods and apparatus for efficiently communicating across an asymmetric digital subscriber loop are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for communicating between a computer in a central office and a remote computer across DSL communications links involves sending a first set of data from the central office computer across a first DSL communications link. The first DSL communications link couples the central office computer to a switch. The method also includes selecting a second DSL communications link, which couples the switch and the remote computer, and sending the first set of data from the switch to the remote computer across the second DSL communications link.

Method and apparatus for communicating across ADSL lines

A network switching system is described. The network switching system comprises a first port coupled to a source, a second port coupled to a destination, and multiplexer means coupled to the first port and the second port for transferring data between the first port and the second port by selectively connecting the first port with the second port. The data is transferred from the source to the destination through the first port, the multiplexer means, and the second port. The network switching system further includes processing means coupled to the multiplexer means for assisting transmission of the data by receiving the data from the first port when the first port does not indicate a port for the destination. A method of transferring data from a source to a destination via a network switching system is also described.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Vinod K Bhardwaj