Method and system for automatic presence and ambient noise detection for a wireless communication device

• US 20070190944A1
• Filed: 02/13/2006
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Shi, Shaw-Ben, Doan, Christopher, Saenz, Lee
• Application Number:
  US11/352,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20070190944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/63.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A system for automatic presence and ambient noise detection for a client device. An incoming message from a caller is received and in response to receiving the incoming message from the caller, a client device state is detected based on a callee situation as dynamically detected by using the client device. After detecting the client device state, the incoming message is converted according to a rule set. The converted incoming message is then rendered on the client device differently than the incoming message would have been by the client device.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method in a network data processing system for automatic presence and ambient noise detection for a client device, the computer implemented method comprising:

receiving an incoming message from a caller;

responsive to receiving the incoming message from the caller, detecting a client device state based on a callee situation as dynamically detected by using the client device;

responsive to detecting the client device state, converting the incoming message according to a rule set to form a converted incoming message; and

rendering the converted incoming message on the client device, wherein the converted incoming message is rendered differently than the incoming message would have been by the client device.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a response message from the client device;

responsive to receiving the response message from the client device, converting the response message according to the rule set to form a converted response message; and

sending the converted response message to the caller.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the client device is a wireless communication device, and wherein the wireless communication device is one of a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant, a handheld computer, and a laptop computer.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein the steps are implemented in a server, and wherein the server is a presence server.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the presence server is located within a cellular telephone service provider network.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the presence server is in communication with a plurality of client devices.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the rule set is a message conversion rule set, and wherein the message conversion rule set is contained within a database.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein converting the incoming message includes at least one of text-to-voice and voice-to-text conversion.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the converting step occurs at the client device.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the client device includes at least one of an intelligent mode unit, a presence unit, and an ambient noise detector.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the client device state is detected as at least one of normal, moving, and noisy.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein an intelligent mode unit contained within the client device enables a speaker phone function when the client device state is detected as moving.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein an intelligent mode unit sets a ring style to at least one of vibrate and lights when the client device state is detected as noisy.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the converted incoming message includes converting an incoming text message into a voice message when the client device state is detected as moving.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the converted incoming message includes converting an incoming voice message into a text message when the client device state is detected as noisy.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein converting the response message includes converting the response message back to a same format as the incoming message from the caller.

17. A data processing system comprising:

a bus system;

a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device includes a set of instructions; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to receive an incoming message from a caller, detect a client device state based on a callee situation as dynamically detected by using the client device in response to receiving the incoming message from the caller, convert the incoming message according to a rule set to form a converted incoming message in response to detecting the client device state, and render the converted incoming message on the client device, wherein the converted incoming message is rendered differently than the incoming message would have been by the client device.

18. A computer program product for automatic presence and ambient noise detection for a wireless communication device, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therein, the computer usable medium comprising;

computer usable program code configured to receive an incoming message from a caller;

computer usable program code configured to detect a client device state based on a callee situation as dynamically detected by using the client device in response to receiving the incoming message from the caller;

computer usable program code configured to convert the incoming message according to a rule set to form a converted incoming message in response to detecting the client device state; and

computer usable program code configured to render the converted incoming message on the client device, wherein the converted incoming message is rendered differently than the incoming message would have been by the client device.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising:

computer usable program code configured to receive a response message from the client device;

computer usable program code configured to convert the response message according to the rule set to form a converted response message in response to receiving the response message from the client device; and

computer usable program code configured to send the converted response message to the caller.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein converting the response message includes converting the response message back to a same format as the incoming message from the caller.