The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Dish Network L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
James Wilde, Denver, CO (US);
Ashok Soni, Aurora, CO (US);
Hawk McGinty, Englewood, CO (US);
James Shuler, Englewood, CO (US);
Lixing Zhang, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Michael Disante, Englewood, CO (US);
Narayanan Sekhar, Englewood, CO (US);
Xiaomei Sun, Englewood, CO (US);
Xinhua Yang, Centennial, CO (US);
DISH Network L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.