MULTIMEDIA SPAM DETERMINATION USING SPEECH CONVERSION
First Claim
1. A method for determining an unwanted multimedia message originating from a multimedia call, said multimedia call being initiated by a caller for a recipient and received by a telecommunication network servicing the recipient, said telecommunication network being unable to complete the call to the recipient and prompting the caller to leave a multimedia message for the recipient, said method comprising:
- receiving the multimedia message from the telecommunication network;
identifying a voice portion of the received multimedia message;
generating a textual representation of the identified voice portion;
applying an anti-spam engine to analyze the generated representation;
generating a confidence ranking of the generated representation in response to the analyzed representation; and
determining whether the multimedia message is the unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation.
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Abstract
Determining unwanted multimedia message originated from a multimedia call. An interface receives a multimedia message from a telecommunication service operator, and multimedia message is stored on a storage area. A unified communication system manages communication message delivery to at least one of the following access points for the recipient, and the unified communication system includes a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions for identifying a voice portion from content of the received multimedia message. An anti-spam engine is applied to analyze a textual representation of the identified voice portion, and a confidence ranking of the representation is generated in response to the analyzed representation. It is determined whether the multimedia message is an unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for determining an unwanted multimedia message originating from a multimedia call, said multimedia call being initiated by a caller for a recipient and received by a telecommunication network servicing the recipient, said telecommunication network being unable to complete the call to the recipient and prompting the caller to leave a multimedia message for the recipient, said method comprising:
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receiving the multimedia message from the telecommunication network; identifying a voice portion of the received multimedia message; generating a textual representation of the identified voice portion; applying an anti-spam engine to analyze the generated representation; generating a confidence ranking of the generated representation in response to the analyzed representation; and determining whether the multimedia message is the unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for determining an unwanted multimedia message originating from a multimedia call, said multimedia call being initiated by a caller for a recipient and received by a telecommunication service operator servicing the recipient, said telecommunication service operator being unable to complete the call to the recipient and prompting the caller to leave a multimedia message for the recipient, said system comprising:
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an interface for receiving the multimedia message from the telecommunication service operator; a storage area for storing the multimedia message; a unified communication system for managing communication message delivery to at least one of the following access points for the recipient;
a mail access point, a voice access point, and a portable phone access point; and
whereinsaid unified communication system includes a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions for; identifying a voice portion from content of the received multimedia message; generating a textual representation of the identified voice portion; applying an anti-spam engine to analyze the generated representation; generating a confidence ranking of the generated representation in response to the analyzed representation; and determining whether the multimedia message is the unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation, and wherein the interface provides a notification to the recipient at the access point in response to the determination. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for determining an unwanted multimedia message originating from a multimedia call, said multimedia call being initiated by a caller for a recipient and received by a telecommunication network operator servicing the recipient, said telecommunication network operator being unable to complete the call to the recipient and prompting the caller to leave a multimedia message for the recipient, said method comprising:
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receiving the multimedia message from the telecommunication network operator, said multimedia message including at least one of the following;
a voice message and a video message;identifying a voice portion of the received multimedia message; generating a representation of the identified voice portion, said representation including at least one of the following;
a text transcript and an annotated extensible markup language (XML) file;applying an anti-spam engine to analyze the generated representation, said anti-spam engine applying a Bayesian filter to the generated representation and generating a confidence ranking thereof in response to the analyzed representation after applying the Bayesian filter; determining whether the multimedia message is the unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation; and delivering a notification indicative of the determining to a mail inbox of the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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