Patent ID: 8015304

Claim:
A method of distributing speech resources comprising: establishing a user session between a client and a server via a first protocol; receiving, at the server, a first request from the client requesting a media processing resource, said first request being formatted in accordance with Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP); morphing the first request into a second request formatted in accordance with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) by: replacing in a Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) portion of the first request a line of code comprising terms “ANNOUNCE rtsp” with HTTP specific code, and replacing in an MRCP portion of the first request a line of code comprising the term “SPEAK” with a line of code comprising terms “MRCPMethod: Speak”; wherein the HTTP specific code enables a plurality of media processing resources distributed across a plurality of server nodes to respond to the second request; selecting at least one of the plurality of media processing resources from the plurality of media processing resources; and forwarding the second request to the selected at least one media processing resource in accordance with HTTP; wherein said morphing is performed at a server-side node functioning as an intermediary between the client and the selected at least one media processing resource.