Granted Patent B2

US 8,271,286 · App. 13/276,264 · Granted Sep 18, 2012

Abstract

Claims (58)

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage media storing thereon computer readable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive a voice input signal;

convert the voice input signal into a text representation of the voice input signal;

determine if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of: a domain name and a messaging address;

in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name:

generate a uniform resource identifier (URI) by appending to the text representation of the voice input signal at least a top level domain identifier; and

determine a registration status of the URI, the registration status comprising one of: registered and unregistered.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is registered, employ the URI to access a web page from a web site associated with the URI.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is registered, provide the URI to a client device.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, create a request to register the URI.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, receive a list of URIs that are similar to the URI.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, display a list of words similar to the text representation of the voice input signal.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the URI is unregistered, send an error message to a client application.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the voice input signal comprises a human speech pattern and the text representation of the voice input signal comprises a sequence of alpha-numeric values that represent written phonemes for sounds within the human speech pattern.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the converting the voice input signal comprises:

isolating segments of the voice input signal;

converting the isolated segments into a sequence of alpha-numeric values, wherein each of the alpha-numeric values is configured and arranged as a phoneme representation of the voice input signal.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 9 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

detect a pre-defined subsequence within the sequence of alpha-numeric values; and

in response to detecting the pre-defined subsequence, delete the pre-defined sub-sequence from within the sequence of alpha-numeric values.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 9 further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

combine, with the sequence of alpha-numeric values, a pre-defined sub-sequence of alpha-numeric values.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the generating the URI further comprises appending to the text representation of the voice input signal at least a second level domain identifier.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the determining the registration status of the URI comprises performing a domain name service (DNS) lookup.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive a user selection of a selected one of a plurality of top level domain identifiers, wherein the selected one of the identifiers is used to generate the URI.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for a messaging application:

generate a messaging address by combining the text representation of the voice input signal with at least a message address domain-part; and

employ the generated messaging address as a destination address within a message header.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 15 , further comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive a user selection of a selected one of a plurality of message address domain-parts, wherein the selected one of the domain-parts is used to generate the message address.

17. A computing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

computer readable storage media tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the at least one processor, the program logic comprising:

logic executed by the at least one processor for receiving a voice input signal;

logic executed by the at least one processor for converting the voice input signal into a text representation of the voice input signal;

logic executed by the at least one processor for determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of: a domain name and a messaging address; and

logic executed by the at least one processor for, in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name:

generating a uniform resource identifier (URI) by appending to a text representation of the voice input signal at least a top level domain identifier; and

determining a registration status of the URI, the registration status comprising one of: registered and unregistered.

18. The computing device of claim 17 , the program logic further comprising:

logic executed by the at least one processor for, in response to determining the URI is registered, employing the URI to access a web page from a corresponding web site associated with the URI.

19. A method comprising:

receiving, using at least one computing device, a voice input signal;

converting, using the at least one computing device, the voice input signal into a text representation of the voice input signal;

determining if the voice input signal is to be employed for use as at least one of: a domain name and a messaging address; and

in response to determining the voice input signal is to be employed for use in a domain name:

generating a uniform resource identifier (URI) by appending to a text representation of the voice input signal at least a top level domain identifier; and

determining a registration status of the URI, the registration status comprising one of: registered and unregistered.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

in response to determining the URI is registered, employing the URI to access a web page from a web site associated with the URI.

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