Telephone based search system
A system includes a telephone coupled to a wide area network; and a server coupled to the telephone over the wide area network, the server receiving a search query from the telephone; the server searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query and returning a search result to display on the telephone.
1 . A method to operate a telephone, comprising:
receiving a search query from the telephone;
transmitting the search query to a search engine;
searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query;
returning a search result to display on the telephone;
selecting one search item and requesting a call back to the telephone.
2 . The method of claim 1 , comprising capturing a verbal search request and transmitting the verbal search request to the search engine.
3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the verbal search request comprises one of: phoneme, diphone, triphone, syllable, demisyllable, cepstral coefficient, cepstrum coefficient.
4 . The method of claim 1 , comprising designating an entity from one of the search results to call back the telephone.
5 . The method of claim 4 , comprising transmitting the telephone's caller identification (Caller ID) number to the entity for calling back the telephone.
6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the entity pays a fee for each Caller ID.
7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the telephone comprises one of: a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone, a cellular telephone, a WiFi telephone, a WiMAX telephone.
8 . The method of claim 1 , comprising providing directions to one of: a store, a retailer, a company, a venue.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the taxonomic databases comprise one or more of: music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic.
10 . The method of claim 1 , comprising performing automated position determination with one of: triangulation based location determination, WiFi location determination, GPS, assisted GPS, GLONASS, assisted GLONASS, GALILEO, assisted GALILEO.
11 . A system, comprising:
a telephone; and
a plain old telephone service (POTS) or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) central office server coupled to the telephone, the server receiving a search query from the telephone; the server searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query and returning a search result to the telephone.
12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the telephone captures a verbal search request and transmitting the verbal search request to the search engine and wherein the verbal search request comprises one of: phoneme, diphone, triphone, syllable, demisyllable, cepstral coefficient, cepstrum coefficient.
13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein an entity associated with one of the search results is selected to call back the telephone.
14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the server transmits the telephone's caller identification (Caller ID) number to the entity for calling back the telephone.
15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the entity pays a fee for each Caller ID.
16 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the telephone comprises one of: a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone, a cellular telephone, a WiFi telephone, a WiMAX telephone.
17 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the taxonomic databases comprise one or more of: music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic, direction.
18 . A system, comprising:
a telephone;
a telephone jack coupled to the telephone and to a plain old telephone service (POTS) or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) land-line;
a server coupled to the POTS or PSTN, the server receiving a search query from the telephone; the server searching one or more databases based on the search query and returning a search result to display on the telephone.
19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the server provides information to one of: directory assistance, yellow page directory, white page directory, search engine, music, food, restaurant, movie, map, telephone directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic, direction.
20 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the server transmits the telephone's caller identification (Caller ID) number to a third party to call back the telephone and wherein the third party pays a fee for each Caller ID.