Patent ID: 6721705
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: G06F,G10L,H04L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
An Internet voice browsing system for gathering information from web sites on the Internet, comprising:a CPU-based media server, said media server including at least a speech recognition engine, a speech synthesis engine, an interactive voice response application, a call processing system, and telephony hardware, said media server configured to receive a speech command from a user and to convert said speech command into a digital data message; a database containing a list of web sites stored on magnetic media, a rank number assigned to each one of said web sites and stored in said database; a CPU-based web browsing server, said web browsing server including at least a content extraction agent, a content fetcher, a polling and ranking agent, and a content descriptor file, said web browsing server configured to receive said digital data message from said media server and configured to access one of said web sites having the highest said rank number and to retrieve information from said one of said web sites; said media server configured to generate an audio message representing said information and to transmit said audio message to said user; and a polling mechanism configured to periodically send a polling digital data message to each one of said web sites and to receive a response, each of said web sites thereby becoming a polled web site, said polling mechanism configured to decrease said rank number of said polled web site if no response is received from said polled web site, said polling mechanism also configured to decrease said rank number of said polled web site if an unexpected response is received from said polled web site, and said polling mechanism also configured to decreases said rank number of said polled web site if a response time of said polled web site is longer than a second response time of a second polled web site.