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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2000
David Ladd, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Gregory Johnson, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a markup language document stored on a computer-readable medium to provide interactive services and methods thereof. The markup language comprises a dialog element and a step element. The dialog element includes markup language elements in which each markup language element is identifiable by one or more markup tags. The step element is contained within the dialog element and defines a state within the dialog element. The step element includes a prompt element, an input element, and a first attribute. The prompt element includes an announcement to be read to the user, and the input element includes at least one input that corresponds to a user input. The first attribute allows for billing of the interactive services.