Patent ID: 8411675

Claim:
A data device to speech service bridge for connecting a packet enabled device with a telephony resource, comprising: a data device communicator having at least one access port to receive requests for data from and transmit the requested data to a browser executing on a packet enabled device, the received data including a command for access to at least one resource necessary to display the requested data on the packet enabled device, the return data including processed data to allow the packet enabled device to display the data; a command bridge connected to the data device communicator for receiving and mapping the command from the data device communicator to at least one standardized protocol, and for receiving processed data from the at least one resource and mapping the processed data into a protocol usable by the packet enabled device; and a resource termination connected to the command bridge, the resource termination configured to transmit the received data to the at least one resource and receive processed data from the at least one resource, wherein the command bridge maintains a communication link between the packet enabled device and the data device communicator and the resource termination and the at least one resource so the received data is transmitted to the at least one resource and the processed data in a protocol usable by the packet enabled device is transmitted to the packet enabled device.