Internet-enabled voice-response service
CA 2238226 C · Owner: Strahs, Lee B. · Inventors: Strahs, Lee B.
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A method and system of providing a remote user with access to a voice response unit, which allows Internet users to access voice response units using a web graphical interface. In one aspect the present invention includes an, Internet telephone services node which includes a web server, communicatively coupled to a client computer system of the remote user a, voice switch initiating a call to a voice response unit responsive to a signal, from the web server a touch-tone generator generating a touch-tone signal responsive to a signal from the web server and transmitting the touch-tone, signal to the voice response unit through the voice switch and an audio streaming server receiving an audio …
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- Filed May 21, 1998 and granted December 23, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 21, 2018.
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