Intelligent multimode message alerts
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver for receiving an incoming signal directed to a telecommunications terminal, wherein said incoming signal is characterized by at least one property;
a plurality of transducers, wherein each of said transducers can alert a user to the arrival of said incoming signal; and
a processor for selecting which of said transducers alert said user based on at least one property of said incoming signal.
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Abstract
An apparatus that intelligently determines how to alert a user to the arrival of an incoming message at a telecommunications terminal, and what information is imparted to the user via the alert, is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiments, the terminal has a processor that makes this determination based on one or more of the following: properties of the incoming message (e.g., who sent the message, a priority level associated with the message, the semantic content of the message, the length of the message, etc.), the time and date (i.e., the “calendrical time”), environmental parameters (e.g., temperature, ambient luminosity, etc.), the user'"'"'s physiological parameters (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, etc.), the location of the user, the proximity of other wireless terminals in the vicinity, whether the user is currently receiving another message, and the delivery mechanism of the other message (e.g., voice, text chat, etc.).
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a receiver for receiving an incoming signal directed to a telecommunications terminal, wherein said incoming signal is characterized by at least one property;
a plurality of transducers, wherein each of said transducers can alert a user to the arrival of said incoming signal; and
a processor for selecting which of said transducers alert said user based on at least one property of said incoming signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus comprising:
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a receiver for receiving an incoming signal directed to a telecommunications terminal, wherein said incoming signal comprises a plurality of sub-signals and is characterized by at least one property;
a processor for selecting at least one of said sub-signals based on at least one of said properties; and
a transducer for generating an output signal based on said selected sub-signals to alert a user to the arrival of said incoming signal. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An apparatus comprising:
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a receiver for receiving an incoming signal directed to a telecommunications terminal;
a plurality of transducers, wherein each of said transducers can alert a user to the arrival of said incoming signal; and
a processor for selecting which of said transducers alert said user based on at least one of;
the calendrical time at said telecommunications terminal, the geo-location of said telecommunications terminal, a change in the geo-location of said telecommunications terminal, the proximity of said geo-location to another person, said incoming signal'"'"'s relevance to said other person an environmental property, a change in said environmental property, a physiological property of said user, and a change in said physiological property of said user. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. An apparatus comprising:
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a receiver for receiving an incoming signal directed to a telecommunications terminal, wherein said incoming signal comprises a plurality of sub-signals;
a processor for selecting at least one of said sub-signals based on at least one of;
the calendrical time at said telecommunications terminal, the geo-location of said telecommunications terminal, a change in the geo-location of said telecommunications terminal, the proximity of said geo-location to another person, said incoming signal'"'"'s relevance to said other person an environmental property, a change in said environmental property, a physiological property of said user, and a change in said physiological property of said user. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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