Abstract: A device for enabling users without programming backgrounds to create and modify web pages combines the telephone with interactive voice-response technology, database software, streaming audio technology and the World Wide Web, which results in a simple and easy to use interface. Without knowledge of HTML, a user can pick up a phone and revise a Web site in seconds with an audio message, graphical images, new text, Web pages or hyperlinks. The touch-tone telephone handset operates as a substitute computer keyboard, allowing the user to publish a Web site from their telephone. Other features include the ability to switch between different Web pages when a particular URL is called, manipulation of existing audio, graphics and text materials on a Web site, HREF control, the ability to change the first page of a site, date stamping of any text, graphic or audio element, and the ability to edit or synchronize Internet, Intranet and IVR content within a single call.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 25, 1997
Date of Patent:
August 31, 1999
Assignee:
Premiere Communications, Inc.
Inventors:
Gregg S. Freishtat, James K. Leitess, Michael J. Cowden