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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2001
Theodore Calderone, San Carlos, CA (US);
Paul M. Cook, Woodside, CA (US);
Mark J. Foster, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Theodore Calderone, San Carlos, CA (US);
Paul M. Cook, Woodside, CA (US);
Mark J. Foster, Palo Alto, CA (US);
AgileTV Corporation, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises ans system and method of using a back channel containing a multiplicity of identified speech channels from a multiplicity of user sites presented to a speech processing system at a wireline node in a network that supports at least one of cable television delivery and video delivery. One embodiment of the invention comprises a method having the steps of receiving the back channel to create a received back channel; partitioning the received back channel into a multiplicity of received identified speech channels; processing the multiplicity of received identified speech channels to create a multiplicity of identified speech content; and responding to the identified speech content to create an identified speech content response that is unique, for each of the multiplicity of identified speech contents.