Method and apparatus for a voice portal server
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDale Robinson Hewitt, William John Izard, Matthew James Ponsford, David Seager Renshaw, Samuel Jonathan Smith
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Abstract
Method, system, and computer program product for building a voice prompt menu for a collection of portlets by acquiring a list of portlets, building a voice menu comprising voice menu items to activate each of the portlets, acquiring a portlet profile containing customization information, and adapting the voice menu using the customization information in the portlet profile. The web portlet may define custom characteristics for consideration by the voice aggregator, for instance, in the positions for its menu items in the hierarchy of the voice portal menu.
Claims15
A method of building a voice prompt menu for a collection of portlets, the method comprising:
- acquiring a list of portlets;
- building a voice menu comprising voice menu items to activate each of the portlets;
- acquiring a portlet profile containing customization information;
- and
- adapting, by a voice portal server, the voice menu using the customization information in the portlet profile.
A system of building a voice prompt menu for a collection of portlets, the system comprising:
- a portlet controller for acquiring a list of portlets and acquiring portlet profiles containing customization information;
- a voice menu builder for building a voice menu comprising voice menu items to activate each of the portlets;
- and
- a profiler for adapting the voice menu using the customization information in the portlet profile.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable recording medium having computer readable code stored thereon for building a voice prompt menu for a collection of portlets, said computer readable code which when loaded onto a computer system and executed performs the following steps:
- acquiring a list of portlets;
- building a voice menu comprising voice menu items to activate each of the portlets;
- acquiring a portlet profile containing customization information;
- and
- adapting the voice menu using the customization information in the portlet profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.