Patent ID: 7143147

Claim:
A voice web browser system comprising: a plurality of touch-tone telephones capable of producing DTMF signals; a remote access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, said TCP/IP network comprising a plurality of nodes, said TCP/IP network providing access to web pages stored on computer systems coupled to said TCP/IP network, said web pages comprising HTML code that can be transmitted via TCP/IP packets to said access system over said TCP/IP network, said access system being able to receive said TCP/IP packets and to parse said HTML code into text and non-text portions; a speech recognition system responsive to spoken commands from said telephone users and operative to provide voice commands to said access system; a public telephone system coupling said plurality of telephones to said access system for interactive communication with said access system through one or more telephone switch offices such that at least one of said DTMF signals and voice commands can be used to navigate among said web pages to a selected web page for a plurality of users of said plurality of telephones after a user of a touch-tone telephone are granted permission to use such functionality; a security system requiring at least a password to grant said user permission; and a text-to-speech system associated with said access system for reading at least some of said text portions to at least one of said plurality of users of said selected web page.