Patent ID: 7146320
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for accessing and responding to an electronic mail message, the method comprising: accessing a first electronic mail message with a question portion indicative of a question and a proposed answer portion having proposed answers to the question; parsing the first electronic mail message to identify the proposed answers; converting the question portion and the answer portion to speech and audibly rendering the question and each of the proposed answers to a user; generating a context free grammar as a function of the proposed answers and providing the context free grammar to a speech recognizer; receiving a response from the user; associating the response with one of the proposed answers using the speech recognizer and the context free grammar; converting the response to a textual response based on said one of the proposed answers; and sending a second electronic mail message to a sender of the first electronic mail message, the second electronic mail message including the textual response.