A conversational portal for providing conversational browsing and multimedia broadcast on demand

摘要

Conversational portal and method for interfacing between content providers over a network and a plurality of client devices having access to the conversational portal, the conversational portal configured for processing requests from the plurality of client devices. The conversational portal comprises a search engine for locating content associated with a request received from a requesting device of the plurality of client devices and fetching the content in a modality independent format. The conversational portal also comprises a transcoder for converting the content in the modality independent format into a format supported by the requesting client device.