Patent ID: 6662163
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method of exchanging information with a plurality of mobile users, comprising:exchanging messages between a server and a plurality of mobile client units, using wireless RF transmissions, each mobile client unit being used by a respective one of the mobile users; at each mobile client unit: receiving from the server a respective first voice page, and interpreting the respective first voice page by: speaking via a speaker voice prompts specified by the respective first voice page, receiving and converting voice responses from the user of the mobile client unit into text responses, and performing an action based on at least one of the text responses; wherein the action performed is selected from the set consisting of requesting a new voice page from the server and continuing to interpret the respective first voice page; the server executes a warehouse management application that generates application data in response to a request from any one of the mobile client units, and executes an interface module that converts the application data into the new voice page; and executing the warehouse management application generates one or more voice pages that cause the one mobile client unit to perform the steps of: playing an audio prompt-telling a user to go to a specified location; waiting for the user to speak a check string corresponding to the specified location, thereby confirming the user is at the specified location; playing an audio prompt instructing the user to perform a task; waiting for the user to confirm the task is completed; and repeating the telling, first waiting, playing and second waiting steps.