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US 7,996,228 B2Granted
Voice initiated network operations
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsQuentin Miller, John J. Ostlund, Anand Ramakrishna
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Abstract
Embodiments of voice initiated network operations are presented herein. Voice initiation of operations is described which may be utilized to assist a user in performing operations, such as when other input mechanisms are undesirable, inconvenient, or impossible. A user provides speech to a client device. The speech is converted to text. The text is used to perform operations and obtain results.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, at a service of a plurality of services, a request to initiate a push to talk over cellular (PoC) session via a network, wherein the request is based at least in part on a user selection of the service;
- receiving a voice command including voice data at the service via the PoC session, wherein each service of the plurality of services is implemented on a respective server that includes a respective translation module;
- translating the voice data to instructions understandable to an operations module of the service;
- performing, by the operations module, the translated instructions to form a graphical response;
- and
- forming a communication that includes the graphical response to be communicated to a client device of the user over the network.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, at a service of a plurality of services, a request to initiate a push to talk over cellular (PoC) session via a network, wherein the request is based at least in part on a user selection of the service;
- receiving a voice command including voice data at the service via the PoC session, wherein each service of the plurality of services is implemented on a respective server that includes a respective translation module;
- translating the voice data to a search term understandable to an operations module of the service;
- performing, by a search engine of the operations module, a search specified by the search term;
- and
- forming a response that includes search results to be communicated over the network to a client that originated the voice data, wherein the search results are automatically refined based upon a location of the client.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.