Text messaging in a telephony network

• US 20080189108A1
• Filed: 02/05/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Atar, Kobi
• Application Number:
  US11/702,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20080189108A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting

Abstract

An apparatus including a capturer and a converter. The capturer is configured to capture at least one word spoken by a calling party of a phone call in accordance with a predetermined capturing policy. The converter is in communication with the capturer and configured to automatically convert at least one of the at least one captured word into a textual sequence.

Claims

1. An apparatus for call enhancement in association with telephone calls in a telephony network, comprising:

a capturer configured to capture at least one word spoken by a calling party of a phone call, wherein the capturer operates according to a predetermined capturing policy; and

a converter in communication with the capturer and configured to automatically convert at least one of the at least one captured word into a textual sequence.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a voice message receiver in communication with the capturer and configured to allow the calling party of the phone call to leave a voice message comprising the spoken words to a called party of the phone call.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a text message sender in communication with the converter and configured to send a text message containing the textual sequence to a called party of the phone call.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a response receiver in communication with the capturer and configured to receive a response order in response to the text message from a called party of the phone call.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the response order comprises a prerecorded voice message.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the response order comprises a text message.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a response executer in communication with the response receiver and configured to execute the response order received from the called party to the calling party.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the converter is further configured to automatically convert all of the at least one captured word into the textual sequence.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one switch in communication with at least one of the converter and the capturer, wherein the at least one switch controls access to at least one of the converter and the capturer.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the telephony network is a cellular telephony network.

11. A method for call enhancement in association with telephone calls in a telephony network, comprising:

capturing at least one word spoken by a calling party of a phone call wherein the capturing is performed according to a predetermined capturing policy; and

automatically converting at least one of the at least one captured word into a textual sequence.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

allowing the calling party of the phone call to leave a voice message comprising the spoken words to a called party of the phone call.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

sending a text message containing the textual sequence to a called party of the phone call.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a response order from a called party of the phone call.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the response order is a prerecorded voice message.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the response order is a text message.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

sending a response order provided by a called party to the calling party.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the converting comprises automatically converting all of the at least one captured word into a textual sequence.

19. A system for call enhancement in association with telephone calls in a telephony network, comprising:

a capturer deployed in the telephony network and configured to capture at least one word spoken by a calling party of a phone call, wherein the capturer operates according to a predetermined capturing policy;

b) a converter in communication with the capturer and configured to automatically convert at least one of the at least one captured word into a textual sequence; and

c) a client agent installed at a remote unit and configured to communicate with the capturer in order to trigger the capturing of the at least one word by the capturer.

20. A client agent embodied on a computer readable medium and installable on a mobile telephony device, wherein the client agent is configured to communicate with an apparatus in order to trigger capturing of words spoken by a calling party to a text message, and wherein the client agent is further configured to receive the text message from the apparatus and present the text message on a screen of the mobile telephony device.