Using voice-based web navigation to conserve cellular data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016179752-A1
Application number	US-201414575235-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 18, 2014
Priority date	Dec 18, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques disclose methods for providing voice-based web navigation through a cellular voice connection. A voice command a request to return content of a webpage having one or more topics is received via a cellular voice connection. One or more of the topics of the webpage that match the content specified in the request is identified. An audio indication of the content is returned via the cellular voice connection.

First claim

1 .- 7 . (canceled)

8 . A computer program product, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code configured to perform an operation, the operation comprising:
receiving, via a cellular voice connection, a voice command representing a request to return content of a webpage having one or more topics,
identifying, based on a natural processing language (NLP) evaluation of the webpage, one or more candidates from the topics of the webpage that match the content specified in the request,
determining a confidence score for each of the candidates based on the NLP evaluation, and
returning, via the cellular voice connection, an audio indication of the content corresponding to one of the candidates.

9 . The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the request specifies a uniform resource locator (URL) for the webpage.

10 . The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the operation further comprises, prior to receiving the voice command:
accessing the webpage via the specified URL; extracting unstructured text from the webpage; and identifying the topics of the webpage.

11 . The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the operation further comprises, prior to identifying the one or more candidates:
converting the voice command to text input.

12 . The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein identifying one or more features of the webpage that match the content specified in the request comprises:
performing one or more NLP techniques to the converted text input to identify a specified command and a target indicating a location within the webpage; and identifying the content based on the target.

13 . The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the audio indication of the content is a prompt requesting a selection of one or more locations to navigate within the webpage.

14 . The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the operation further comprises:
receiving a voice command representing a selection of one of the candidates; and returning an audio indication of content corresponding to the selected candidate.

15 . A system, comprising:
a processor; and a memory storing a program, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation, the operation comprising:
receiving, via a cellular voice connection, a voice command representing a request to return content of a webpage having one or more topics,
identifying, based on a natural processing language (NLP) evaluation of the webpage, one or more candidates from the topics of the webpage that match the content specified in the request,
determining a confidence score for each of the candidates based on the NLP evaluation, and
returning, via the cellular voice connection, an audio indication of the content corresponding to one of the candidates.

16 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the request specifies a uniform resource locator (URL) for the webpage.

17 . The system of claim 16 , wherein the operation further comprises, prior to receiving the voice command:
accessing the webpage via the specified URL; extracting unstructured text from the webpage; and identifying the topics of the webpage.

18 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the operation further comprises, prior to identifying the one or more candidates:
converting the voice command to text input.

19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein identifying one or more features of the webpage that match the content specified in the request comprises:
performing one or more NLP techniques to the converted text input to identify a specified command and a target indicating a location within the webpage; and identifying the content based on the target.

20 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the audio indication of the content is a prompt requesting a selection of one or more locations to navigate within the webpage.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Clark Adam T
• Huebert Jeffrey K
• Payton Aspen L
• Petri John E

Classifications

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04W4/16

  Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold · CPC title

• G06F40/00

  Handling natural language data (speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L) · CPC title

• G10L15/22

  Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue · CPC title

• G10L15/26

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title