Abstract

A method and apparatus for defining an interface for a System using voice commands to connect a first user to a Second user over a network. The interface receives a request to define the interface for a particular user. The interface receives a first information item, and Searches at least one database for a second information item indexed by the first information item. Another Search is performed for a third information item indexed by the Second information item. This process is continued until the interface has gathered Sufficient information items to construct a natural language grammar for use by the interface. The interface uses the natural language grammar to parse commands given by the user for future communications connections.

Date

October 24, 2000

Authors

DL Dutton, SS Narayanan, I Zeljkovic

Inventors

Dawn L Dutton, Shrikanth Sambasivan Narayanan, Ilija Zeljkovic

Patent_office

US

Patent_number

6138100

Application_number

09059912