US 7,047,196 B2
System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video deliveryGeneral
US 7,047,196 B2
System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Vijay Chawan
Art Unit:
2658 Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing; Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression
Agent:
Glenn Patent Group
Inventors:
Theodore Calderone; Paul M. Cook; Mark J. Foster
Assignee:
Priority:
06/08/00
Filed:
02/16/01
Granted:
05/16/06
Expiration:
07/21/23
Abstract
A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises ans system and method of using a back channel containing a multiplicity of identified speech channels from a multiplicity of user sites presented to a speech processing system at a wireline node in a network that supports at least one of cable television delivery and video delivery. One embodiment of the invention comprises a method having the steps of receiving the back channel to create a received back channel; partitioning the received back channel into a multiplicity of received identified speech channels; processing the multiplicity of received identified speech channels to create a multiplicity of identified speech content; and responding to the identified speech content to create an identified speech content response that is unique, for each of the multiplicity of identified speech contents.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04M2201/40H04N21/23805H04L45/06H04MG06Q30/0603G06QG10L15/30G10LH03D7/163H03D