Autoforward messaging

• US 20060172709A1
• Filed: 02/03/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Williamson, James, Eyer, Mark, Moore, Donald, McKay, Micheale
• Application Number:
  US11/051,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20060172709A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/90.300
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method comprises entering a deferred calling mode by a wireless communication unit. Thereafter, a destination of an audio, video, or text message for transmission by the wireless communication unit is provided and the message is recorded and stored within the destination within memory of the wireless communication unit for later transmission.

Claims

1. A wireless communication unit comprising:

a housing; and

internal logic contained within the housing, the internal logic to temporarily store and defer delivery of messages targeted for wireless transmission to an intended recipient.

2. The wireless communication unit of claim 1, wherein the internal logic defers delivery of the message in response to a lack of wireless connectivity to a destination and initiates delivery of the message when wireless connectivity is re-established with the destination.

3. The wireless communication unit of claim 1, wherein the internal logic defers delivery of the message for a prescribed period of time in response to programming by a user.

4. The wireless communication unit of claim 3, wherein the prescribed period of time may be programmed according to a future date and time.

5. The wireless communication unit of claim 1, wherein the internal logic comprises a local memory to contain a pending call table that comprises a plurality of entries, each entry comprises (i) a message field including one of a message file comprising audio, video, or text recorded by the user and a pointer to a memory location within the local memory where the message file is stored, and (ii) a destination field including information needed to establish communications with the intended recipient.

6. The wireless communication unit of claim 5, wherein the information contained in the destination field includes a telephone number.

7. The wireless communication unit of claim 5, wherein the information contained in the destination field includes an email address.

8. The wireless communication unit of claim 5, wherein each entry of the pending call table stored within the local memory of the internal logic further comprises a scheduled time field that identifies an anticipated delivery time of the message file associated with that entry.

9. The wireless communication unit of claim 5, wherein each entry of the pending call table stored within the local memory of the internal logic further comprises a confirmation identification field to identify that the message file has been delivered to the intended recipient.

10. A method comprising:

entering a deferred calling mode by a wireless communication unit;

entering a destination of a message for transmission by the wireless communication unit;

recording the audio; and

storing the message for transmission to the destination within memory of the wireless communication unit.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the destination is a telephone number.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the destination is an Internet address.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein prior to storing the audio, the method further comprises setting a delivery time for transmission of the message to the destination.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the storing of the message further includes storing of the message along with the destination and the delivery time within the wireless communication unit.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

uploading the message to the destination in response to re-establishment of wireless connectivity with a recipient using the destination where the wireless communication unit entered into the deferred calling mode in response to a lack of wireless connectivity with the recipient.

16. Embodied within a machine-readable medium executed by a processor of a wireless communication unit, a software comprising:

a first module to cause the wireless communication unit to enter into a deferred calling mode when wireless connectivity is unavailable to a recipient, and to cause storage of message recorded by a user and the destination of the audio; and

a second module to upload the recorded message to the destination when wireless connectivity is available to the relay unit.

17. The software of claim 16, wherein the machine-readable medium being contained within a cellular telephone being the wireless communication unit.

18. The software of claim 16, wherein the first module to further cause storage of an anticipated delivery time of the message.

19. The software of claim 16, wherein the first module to further cause storage of a confirmation identifier to identify that the message has been transmitted to the relay unit.