Appeal No. 2000-1524
Application No. 08/943,711
recognition capabilities to Java. As explained at page 4 of
the instant specification, the “present invention provides
important technical advantages including the ability to easily
encode state information in a Java application. Unlike HTML,
which is stateless, Java is a full programming language
capable of efficiently carrying the necessary state
information. Moreover, because Java is a full programming
language, the present invention facilitates speech enablement
of any Java program application, and is not limited to Web
browsing applications.”
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A system for facilitating a speech interface to Java
comprising:
a speech recognition server operable to receive a grammar
and a speech input, the speech recognition server further
operable to perform speech recognition in response to the
speech input and to generate a result based on the grammar;
at least one Java application operable to dynamically
specify the grammar, to receive the result and to perform an
action based on the result; and
an application program interface operable to receive the
grammar, to communicate the grammar to the speech recognition
server and, in response to the speech recognition, to receive
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