Patent ID: 6721781
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: G06F,G10L,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of providing information from the web, comprising the step of:receiving a request for a web page of a web server, the request coming from a web client, the request including an audible formatting parameter specifying whether web content should be returned in an audible format; returning the requested web page in a first format which includes audible content if said audible formatting parameter requests an audible format; returning the requested web page in a second format which does not include audible content if said audible formatting parameter requests no audible format; wherein said web page is represented by an HTML file having a plurality of MTML tags, wherein at least one of said HTML tags is an audiate tag defining said audible content; wherein said audiate tag has at least one parameter, said at least one parameter including a wave parameter specifying a wave file containing sound, said wave file to be included in a response in said first format and not to be included in a response in said second format.