Regionalized Network Path Resolution via Voice Queries
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for accessing network paths to file types are inefficient and location-agnostic, requiring specific applications and user-driven bookmarks that do not simplify access across different devices and locations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that uses a user interface connected to a remote speech-to-text server via an API, with a globally accessible database associating specific words, phrases, or sounds with network paths, allowing users to access files through voice commands and location-based queries, automatically opening the appropriate application on the networked device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional bookmarks and application-specific access methods are used, then users can access files within specific applications, but access efficiency is limited and users must remember multiple paths across different applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal access system that works across multiple applications and devices simultaneously. A single bookmark in the Safari browser can trigger file access through various applications (TextEdit, Mail, Messages, etc.), eliminating the need for separate bookmarks in each application and centralizing access management.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism (the Safari browser extension and associated server) that mediates between the user's simple voice command or bookmark click and the complex file access process. This intermediary handles speech-to-text conversion, database queries, and application launching, simplifying the user's interaction while managing complexity in the background.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional path-based access is used, then files can be accessed through network paths, but the system does not account for user location and provides the same result regardless of where the user is
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements location-based customization where the system adapts its behavior based on the user's geographic location. Different regions can have different speech-to-text servers, different database configurations, and different file access preferences, allowing the system to provide locally optimized access while maintaining a uniform simple interface for the user.
3Device complexity
If speech-to-text conversion is performed remotely via API, then the system can process voice commands without local processing resources, but it requires network connectivity and API integration
Solution Approach 1:
The remote speech-to-text server acts as an intermediary that offloads the complex speech processing task from the local device. The browser extension and mobile application serve as local intermediaries that prepare and send speech data to the remote server, then receive and process the text results, distributing the processing burden across multiple components.
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AI summary
A system and method for regionalized resolution of a network path to one or more file types based on a specific sound or a specific combination of words, phrases and/or sounds. An application with a user interface at a networked device has access to a remote speech to text server via an advanced programmer interface (API) and to a regionalized, accessible database. The regionalized, accessible database can contain text translations of distinct words, phrases, and sounds along with region(s) where the entries are valid that are associated with distinct network paths. Converted audio in a searchable format and location of the networked device are queried at the global database for a match, if a match is found at the regionalized database for the query, the network path associated with the match is returned from the regionalized database to the networked device, and one or more files associated with the returned network path are opened at the networked device.