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:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2000
Hadi Partovi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Livermore, CA (US);
David Bryan Alpert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeremy Belldina, Burlingame, CA (US);
Barry Arons, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hadi Partovi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Livermore, CA (US);
David Bryan Alpert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeremy Belldina, Burlingame, CA (US);
Barry Arons, Mountain View, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This invention relates in general to methods for receiving and interpreting an alphanumeric input string entered on a telephone keypad using one keystroke per input string character. The set of matching objects in a database are selected and sorted and presented to the user as an ordered list from which the user may select the desired item on the list through a further numeric keystroke entry or through a spoken selection that is matched against a restricted voice recognition grammar for improved recognition accuracy. In an alternative embodiment, the matching objects in the database are selected and sorted and the response associated with each matched object is presented in sorted sequence.