Patent ID: 7283973
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. A multi-modal content access and delivery system comprising: a data session server connected to a network and to user devices requesting content from at least one back-end application via the network, the data session server being configured to maintain only one back-end session with the back-end application, and to maintain multiple sessions for respective ones of the user devices and different modes of communication employed by the user devices which are all accessing the same back-end session to interact with the requested content simultaneously, the user devices accessing the back-end application via speech employing a speech interface to the data session server; wherein the data session server is configured to receive a mark-up language page from the back-end application, the mark-up language page comprising directives for different modes of communication specified by the back-end application to format and provide the requested content to the respective ones of the user devices and the different modes of communication employed by the user devices via their corresponding multiple sessions, the data session server also being configured to fill in templates in response to corresponding ones of the directives specified in the mark-up language page for the different modes of communication to create the requested content in accordance with the protocol needed for the different modes of communication of the user devices, the templates comprising at least one of preset templates stored at the data session server and templates obtained by the data session server from the network.