Method and system for enabling connectivity to a data system

A method to enable voice access to a data system, comprising:

• identifying user interface (UI) objects to voice enable, said UI objects pertaining to a user interface that is provided by the data system to access data in the data system;
• and
• in response to receiving a data request from a voice application that identifies a navigation context of a user within the user interface for the data system,
• retrieving data from the data system pertaining to the navigation context of the user;
• and
• filtering the data retrieved from the data system to provide data pertaining to voice-enabled UI objects corresponding to the navigation context of the user to the voice application.

A computer readable medium on which a plurality of machine instructions are stored that when executed by a computing machine provides filtered data to a voice access system by performing the operations of:

• providing data to render a computer user interface by which a user may identify user interface (UI) objects to voice enable, said UI objects pertaining to a data system user interface that is provided by a data system from which the filtered data are retrieved to access data in the data system;
• and
• in response to receiving data from the data system pertaining to a data request from the voice access system that identifies a navigation context of a user within the user interface for the data system,
• filtering the data received from the data system to produce filtered data pertaining to voice-enabled UI objects corresponding to the navigation context of the user;
• and
• providing the filtered data to the voice access system.

The machine-readable media of 33, wherein the computer user interface includes a first set of markable objects adjacent to respective UI object indicia to allow a user to select which UI object to voice enable and further includes a second set of markable objects to allow the user to select UI objects to provide grammar update support for, said UI objects that are selected being grammar-update enabled UI objects, and wherein execution of the machine instructions further performs the operations of:

• in response to receiving a grammar update request from the voice access system that identifies a navigation context of the user interface to update grammar information for,
• retrieving data from the data system pertaining to the navigation context;
• and
• filtering the data retrieved from the data system to provide data pertaining to grammar update-enabled UI objects according to the navigation context to the voice access system.

A computer readable medium on which a plurality of machine instructions are stored that when executed by a computing machine provides filtered data by performing the operations of:

• providing data to render a computer user interface by which a user may identify user interface (UI) objects in forms corresponding to a user interface of an application used to access the data system to pass-through enable;
• generating a filter mechanism to filter out underlying data pertaining to UI objects contained in the forms that were not identified to pass-through enable;
• and
• in response to a data query request from a requester requesting to retrieve data from the data system meeting a query criteria provided with the data query request, said query criteria identifying a form to which the requested data pertain,
• receiving an unfiltered set of data from the data system based on the query criteria;
• filtering the unfiltered set of data with the filter mechanism to create a filtered set of data;
• and
• returning the filtered set of data to the requester,
• the filtered set of data including data meeting the query criteria and pertaining to UI objects that are pass-through enabled.