Systems And Methods For Securely Transcribing Voicemail Messages

• US 20080300873A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James Siminoff
• Original Assignee: James Siminoff
• Inventors: Siminoff, James
• Application Number:
  US12/126,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20080300873A1
• 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: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42221 Conversation recording systems at the subscriber's set H04M1/656
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53333 Message receiving aspects

Abstract

A system or method for securely transcribing voicemail messages includes answering a call within a secure communication provider, the secure communication provider recording audio of the call, sending the audio to a voicemail transcription service via a secure communication link, transcribing the audio into text, and sending the text to the secure communication provider via the secure communication link, the audio and the text not being permanently stored and not being available for interpretation by humans during this transcription method.

Claims

1. A method for securely transcribing voicemail messages, comprising the steps of:

answering a call within a secure communication provider, the secure communication provider recording audio of the call;

sending the audio to a voicemail transcription service via a secure communication link;

transcribing the audio into text; and

sending the text to the secure communication provider via the secure communication link, the audio and the text not being permanently stored and not being available for interpretation during this transcription method.

2. A system for securely transcribing voicemail messages, comprising:

a call handler within a secure communication provider for answering a call unanswered by a communication device and for recording audio of the call;

a secure communication link between the secure communication provider and a voicemail transcription service;

a first data server within the secure communication provider for sending the audio to the voicemail transcription service via the secure communication link;

a second data server within the voicemail transcription service for receiving the audio from the first data server via the secure communication link; and

a transcriber for transcribing the audio into text, the text being sent to the first data server by the second data server via the secure communication link, the first data server storing the text within a voicemail box of the secure communication provider.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a secure SMS handler for generating an encrypted text message containing the text, and for sending the encrypted text message to the communication device.

4. The system of claim 2, further comprising a secure email handler for generating an encrypted email message containing the text and/or the audio, and for sending the encrypted email message to one or more designated email addresses.

5. A method for securely transcribing voicemail messages, comprising the steps of:

configuring a secure communication provider to forward an unanswered call to a voicemail transcription service;

answering the call within the voicemail transcription service;

transcribing audio of the call into text;

generating an encrypted text message containing the text; and

sending the encrypted text message to a communication device,

wherein the audio and the text are not permanently stored and are not available for interpretation within the voicemail transcription service.

6. A method for securely transcribing voicemail messages, comprising the steps of:

configuring a secure communication provider to forward an unanswered call to a voicemail transcription service;

answering the call within the voicemail transcription service;

transcribing audio of the call into text;

generating an encrypted email message containing the text and/or audio; and

sending the encrypted email message to one or more designated email addresses,

wherein the audio and the text are not permanently stored or available for interpretation within the voicemail transcription service.