Appeal No. 2002-1454
Application 08/909,950
only the caller’s telephone. See page 1 of Appellants’
specification. Appellants point out that the problem of prior
art systems is that, if an information supplier wishes to change
the information structure, both the voice application and the
HTML pages have to be altered separately. See page 5 of
Appellants’ specification. Another difficulty with the prior art
is that the same voice application commands must be shared by
each Web page accessible through the voice browser. This is
again due to the separation of the voice processing system
commands and the voice processing system data. See pages 5 and 6
of the Appellants’ specification. Appellants overcome the prior
art problems by integrating more closely the voice application
and the HTML pages together. In particular, the voice
application commands as well as the data are contained in the
HTML Web pages. See page 6 of Appellants’ specification.
Independent claim 1 is representative of Appellants’ claimed
invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A voice processing system for allowing telephone callers
to access Hyper-Text Mark-Up Language (HTML) documents without
the use of a computer, said voice processing system comprising:
caller input/output port connected to a telephone network of
telephone callers;
2
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