Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis – Multimedia system
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-15
2011-03-15
Sing, Simon (Department: 2614)
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
Multimedia system
C379S088160, C709S219000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07907703
ABSTRACT:
A method for accessing and browsing the internet through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals the hyperlink selections of a web page in an audio manner, and allows selection of the hyperlinks through the use of DTMF signals generated from a telephone keypad. Upon receiving a DTMF signal corresponding to a hyperlink, the corresponding web page is fetched and again delivered to the user via one of the available delivery methods such as voice, fax-on-demand, electronic mail, or regular mail.
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Hahn John S.
Kwan Richard J.
Olsen Lee E.
Rhie Kyung H.
Intellectual Ventures Patent Holding I, LLC
Mohammed Assad
Sing Simon
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