Telephone communication with silent response feature
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1. A telephone communication method comprising the steps of:
- (a) establishing a telephone call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of the user;
(b) facilitating generation of a response to input from said entity to the telephony-enabled apparatus during the call, by enabling the user to effect a selection from the content of said input or from options derived therefrom;
(c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate said response by at least effecting a said selection; and
(d) sending the response back to said entity.
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Abstract
A telephone call may be received or made by the user of telephony-enabled apparatus in circumstances, such as during a meeting, where spoken responses by the user to what the other party to the call has said are unacceptable. A telephony method and arrangement are disclosed which permits a user to use silent input to the telephony-enabled apparatus in order to generate a response to the other party to the call. Response generation is facilitated by enabling the user to effect a selection from the content of the other party'"'"'s input, or from options derived from that input, with this selection then being used in forming the response.
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31 Claims
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1. A telephone communication method comprising the steps of:
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(a) establishing a telephone call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of the user;
(b) facilitating generation of a response to input from said entity to the telephony-enabled apparatus during the call, by enabling the user to effect a selection from the content of said input or from options derived therefrom;
(c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate said response by at least effecting a said selection; and
(d) sending the response back to said entity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A telephone communication method comprising:
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(a) establishing a telephone call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of the user;
(b) converting voice input from said input into text and using this text with or without further processing, to represent the input from said entity to the user as displayed text on a visual display of the telephony-enabled apparatus;
(c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate a text-form response to the input from said entity, this silent user input being used at least to effect a selection from the displayed text; and
(d) converting the response to voice for return to said entity over the same channel as that used for the said input from the entity. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A telephone communication arrangement for enabling a user of telephony-enabled apparatus to generate silently a response to input received from a remote entity during the course of a telephone call involving that entity and the apparatus, the arrangement comprising:
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apparatus output functionality adapted to avoid disturbing nearby persons when presenting output to the user;
apparatus silent-input functionality for silent indication by the user of a desired selection from output of the output functionality;
response-facilitation functionality for presenting, via said output functionality, call-related output comprising the content of said input or options derived therefrom; and
response generation means for generating a response to said input by using at least a selection made by the user from said call-related output using the silent-input functionality. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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