US2007050478A1PendingUtilityA1

Wireless telephone with internet access

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Individually held — no corporate assignee on recordPriority: May 1, 1996Filed: Jul 16, 2006Published: Mar 1, 2007
Est. expiryMay 1, 2016(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Paul L. HickmanMichael L. Gough
H04M 1/247H04M 2201/40H04M 2201/39H04M 2201/60H04M 2203/4536H04M 3/4938H04M 11/08H04M 2250/74H04M 3/4878H04L 51/066H04M 1/72445H04M 3/5322H04L 69/329H04M 1/2535H04M 1/2478Y10S707/99931H04M 3/42382
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Abstract

A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for “reading” text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the telephone user. Preferably, the access system receives TCP/IP packets from web pages accessible over the TCP/IP network and parses the HTML code of the web pages into text and non-text portions, such that the text portion can be read to the telephone user. A computer implemented process for obtaining web page information over a TCP/IP network includes implementing a connection of a telephone user to an access system that is coupled to a TCP/IP network, detecting a selection of at least one navigation command by the telephone user to access a web page accessible over the TCP/IP network, and navigating over the TCP/IP network to the web page in response to the navigation command, resulting in a verbal communication of at least some information derivable from the web page to the telephone user. A method for retrieving e-mail that was sent over a TCP/IP network includes calling from a user telephone to an access computer coupled to a TCP/IP network, providing user identification to the access computer, retrieving e-mail via the access computer that was sent over the TCP/IP network and addressed to the user, and reading the e-mail to the user of the user telephone utilizing a text-to-speech system.

Claims

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       10 . A wireless telephone with Internet access comprising: 
 a wireless telephone body;    a keypad supported by said body and capable of providing DTMF tones;    a visual display supported by said body and capable of displaying information derived from the Internet; and    a wireless connection to the Internet.    
   
   
       11 . A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in  claim 10  wherein said keypad can be used to send at least one of commands and data to the Internet.  
   
   
       12 . A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in  claim 11  wherein said keypad uses DTMF tones to send said at least one of commands and data to the Internet.  
   
   
       13 . A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in  claim 10  wherein said wireless telephone body is a cellular telephone body, and wherein said wireless connection is a cellular telephone connection.  
   
   
       14 . A wireless telephone with Internet access as recited in  claim 10  wherein said display is further capable of displaying options for accessing functionality of the Internet.  
   
   
       15 . A wireless telephone with Internet assess wherein various alphanumeric characters can be selected by repeatedly pressing a key of said keypad.  
   
   
       16 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone comprising: 
 activating a cellular telephone having keys and a visual display;    displaying options on said visual display for Internet access;    selecting an option from said visual display; and    interacting with the Internet using keys of said cellular telephone.    
   
   
       17 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 16  wherein activating a cellular telephone includes turning on said telephone.  
   
   
       18 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 16  wherein said options include going to a webpage.  
   
   
       19 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 18  futher comprising providing a URL of said webpage.  
   
   
       20 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 16  wherein interacting includes the use of DTMF tones provided by certain keys of said cellular telephone.  
   
   
       21 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 16  whrein said options include a search.  
   
   
       22 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 21  wherien said search is conducted with an Internet search engine.  
   
   
       23 . A method for interacting with the Internet via a cellular telephone as recited in  claim 22  wherein said search includes the input of a search term.  
   
   
       24 . A cellular telephone comprising: 
 means for activating a cellular telephone having keys and a visual display;    means for displaying options on said visual display for Internet access;    means for selecting an option from said visual display; and    means for interacting with the Internet using keys of said cellular telephone.    
   
   
       25 . A cellular telephone as recited in  claim 24  wherein said options include going to a webpage.  
   
   
       26 . A cellular telephone as recited in  claim 24  wherein said options include a search.

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