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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.:

US 8046220 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2007
Applicants:

Sheetal K. Agarwal, Pune, IN;

Dipanjan Chakraborty, Kolkata, IN;

Arun Kumar, Noida, IN;

Sougata Mukherjea, New Delhi, IN;

Amit Anil Nanavati, New Delhi, IN;

Nitendra Rajput, New Delhi, IN;

Inventors:

Sheetal K. Agarwal, Pune, IN;

Dipanjan Chakraborty, Kolkata, IN;

Arun Kumar, Noida, IN;

Sougata Mukherjea, New Delhi, IN;

Amit Anil Nanavati, New Delhi, IN;

Nitendra Rajput, New Delhi, IN;

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method includes crawling and indexing voice sites and storing results in an index; receiving a search request in voice from a user via a telephone; performing speech recognition on the voice search request and converting the request from voice to text; parsing the query; and performing a search on the index and ranking the search results. Search results may be filtered based on attributes such as location and context. Filtered search results may be presented to the user in categories to enable easy voice browsing of the search results by the user. Computer program code and systems are also provided.


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