Improved search capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications devices such as cell phones, as well as improved techniques for delivering sponsored content in a mobile communication environment.

Managing Sponsored Content Based on Usage History

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for using a monetization platform server to associate sponsored content with contextual information relating to mobile content, and storing the sponsored content-contextual information association in a data facility for future use in optimizing the delivery of a sponsored content to a mobile communication facility based at least in part on a display datum associated with the mobile communication facility, wherein the display datum includes a contextual datum.

Contextual targeting of content using a monetization platform

A system to assist in secure multi-mode communication is described. The system can receive communications from a source agent in a source communication mode, authenticate the source agent, and determine a recipient communication mode associated with the recipient agent. The system then transforms the communication from the first communication mode to the second communication mode based on the recipient agent and/or the content of the communication and provides the communication to the recipient agent in the recipient communication mode.

Secure multi-mode communication between agents

A system and a method are disclosed for adding linked content to text messages. Messages are analyzed to determine the context and meaning of a conversation between users, and linked content relevant to the conversation is selected and associated with certain words or phrases in the messages. This process for enhancing text messages beneficially provides users with additional information related to the meaning of their conversation, and also provides advertisers with a valuable new way of delivering highly relevant advertisements to a precise group of users.

Linking context-based information to text messages

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing voice commands. SOLUTION: In one aspect, a method includes the step of receiving an audio signal at a server, the step of performing, by the server, speech recognition on the audio signal to identify one or more candidate terms that match one or more portions of the audio signal, the step of identifying one or more possible intended actions for each candidate term, the step of providing information for display on a client device, the information specifying the candidate terms and the actions for each candidate term, the step of receiving from the client device an indication of an action selected by a user, where the action has been selected from among the actions included in the provided information, and the step of invoking the action selected by the user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Multi-dimensional disambiguation of voice commands

Targeted delivery of contextually relevant ad impressions to a mobile device is provided. The ad impressions are delivered within text messages and/or instant message chat threads. Monetizing of text messaging and instant messaging by providers of such services is achieved, while providing unobtrusive and contextually relevant information to users of such services.

Facilitating presentation of ads relating to words of a message

Methods, systems, and software for converting the audio input (Vl) of a user (110) of a hand-held client device or mobile phone (120) into a textual representation (T4) by means of a backend server (160) accessed by the device through a communications network (130A, 140, 150). The text is then inserted into or used by an application of the client device to send a text message, instant message, email to a recipient device (170, 180), or to insert a request into a web-based application or service. The method includes the steps of initializing or launching the application on the device; recording and transmitting the recorded audio message from the client device to the backend server through a client-server communication protocol; converting the transmitted audio message into the textual representation in the backend server; and sending the converted text message back to the client device or forwarding it on to an alternate destination directly from the server.

Hosted voice recognition system for wireless devices

A method for facilitating the updating of a language model includes receiving, at a client device, via a microphone, an audio message corresponding to speech of a user; communicating the audio message to a first remote server; receiving, that the client device, a result, transcribed at the first remote server using an automatic speech recognition system (“ASR”), from the audio message; receiving, at the client device from the user, an affirmation of the result; storing, at the client device, the result in association with an identifier corresponding to the audio message; and communicating, to a second remote server, the stored result together with the identifier.

Corrective feedback loop for automated speech recognition

A method of utilizing metadata stored in a computer-readable medium to assist in the conversion of an audio stream to a text stream. The method compares personally identifiable data, such as a user's electronic address book and/or Caller/Recipient ID information (in the case of processing voice mail to text), to the n-best results generated by a speech recognition engine for each word that is output by the engine. A goal of this comparison is to correct a possible misrecognition of a spoken proper noun such as a name or company with its proper textual form or a spoken phone number to correctly formatted phone number with Arabic numerals to improve the overall accuracy of the output of the voice recognition system.

Use of metadata to post process speech recognition output

Systems, methods, and software for parsing and/or filtering message strings of text messages and/or instant messages in order to identify keywords, phrases, or fragments as a function of which user preferences of user profiles are dynamically updated are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and software are utilized in the context of a communication system including text messaging, instant messaging, or both. Furthermore, such communication system preferably includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Additionally, ad impressions are selected and delivered to users based, at least in part, on the parsing and/or filtering and/or data maintained in user profiles as dynamically updated from time to time. The ad impression preferably is delivered within a text message or within an instant message conversation and is generally unobtrusive. Revenues preferably may be generated from the delivering of the ad impressions, whereby a provider of instant messaging or text messaging may further derive monetary benefit from providing such service and whereby users of such service may be provided with contextually relevant information in an unobtrusive manner.

Igor Roditis Jablokov

Papers

Facilitating presentation of ads relating to words of a message

Hosted voice recognition system for wireless devices

Corrective feedback loop for automated speech recognition

Use of metadata to post process speech recognition output

Methods and systems for dynamically updating web service profile information by parsing transcribed message strings