US 7,502,993 B1
Calling service using voice enabled web based application server
Lewis Dean Dodrill, Richmond, Va. (US); David William Geen, King George, Va. (US); Satish Joshi, Glen Allen, Va. (US); Ryan Alan Danner, Glen Allen, Va. (US); and Steven J. Martin, Richmond, Va. (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/604,654.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/152316, filed on Sep. 03, 1999.
Int. Cl. G06N 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 715—205  [715/208] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in an application server for executing a voice enabled calling application, the method comprising:
receiving, by the application server, an HTTP request via an HTTP connection for execution of a voice enabled calling application operation for a caller;
accessing, by the application server, a selected extensible markup language (XML) document in response to reception of the HTTP request;
generating, by the application server, based on the XML document, a first HTML page including an audio file having audible prompts for the caller to supply an input;
accessing, by the application server, a directory based on the input from the caller to obtain called party information regarding the called party; and
generating, by the application server, a second HTML page having instructions for a computer-based executable resource to contact the called party.