Patent ID: 7414925
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing information located on at least one web server using a user device having a telephone set connected to a network, wherein the information corresponds to an item printed or marked on a page of a physical document, the method comprising: reading a phone number, a document identifier printed on the physical document, and a page identifier printed on a page of the physical document, and entering the phone number, the document identifier, and the page identifier in the user device; selecting on the user device, a location of an item printed or marked in the page of the physical document and determining corresponding location information; establishing a connection through the network by dialing the phone number read on the physical document, wherein the phone number is that of a server having an IVR server application; encoding as a dial string, an item identification comprising the document identifier, the page identifier, and the location information of the item; transmitting the dial string to the IVR server application using the established connection; receiving and decoding the dial string at the IVR server application; parsing the item identification from the decoded dial string and sending the item identification to a web proxy server application; collecting one or more web pages corresponding to the item identification and located on the at least one web server, using the web proxy server application, and sending the web pages to the IVR server application; transforming the web pages to synthetic voice information using the IVR server application having a text-to-speech synthesis application; sending the synthetic voice information to the user device through the connection established across the network; and receiving and playing the synthetic voice information on the telephone set of the user device.