PERSONALIZED MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND RELATED PROCESS

• US 20100070578A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Universe Broadcasting Corporation
• Original Assignee: Universe Broadcasting Corporation
• Inventors: Singer, Michael, Targon, Lenny M.
• Application Number:
  US12/559,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070578A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for transmitting personal messages to less traditional recipients. Some embodiments provide personalized message transmission systems with a user, a non-traditional recipient, a transmitter, and a server. The server is configured to receive one or more messages from the user, with the server converting the one or more messages to a transmittable format and sending the converted messages to the transmitter. The transmitter transmits the one or more messages to a non-traditional recipient. In another possible embodiment, the personalized message transmission system further comprises a device platform for receiving a signal from the transmitter, with the device platform re-transmitting the signal to the user as a confirmation message.

Claims

1. A personalized message transmission system, comprising:

a user;

a non-traditional recipient;

a transmitter; and

a server configured to receive one or more messages from said user, said server converting said one or more messages to a transmittable format and sending said converted messages to said transmitter, with said transmitter transmitting said one or more messages to said non-traditional recipient.

2. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said non-traditional recipient may comprise one or more of:

a departed loved one, a higher power, an alien, an astronaut, Santa Claus, the heavens, space, the universe, or the North Pole.

3. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said user creates said one or more messages on and sends said messages from a communication device.

4. The personalized message transmission system of claim 3, wherein said communication device comprises one or more of the following:

a computer, a phone, a pager, a radio, or a television.

5. The personalized message transmission system of claim 3, wherein said communication device sends said one or more messages to a server.

6. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, further comprising a provider having said server.

7. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said one or more messages comprises one or more of the following:

an email, a text message, an electronic card, images, audio content, video content, or a combination of these formats.

8. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said server converts said one or more messages into a synthesized speech message.

9. The personalized message transmission system of claim 8, wherein said synthesized speech message may be read aloud to said recipient.

10. The personalized message transmission system of claim 8, wherein the speech of said synthesized speech message may be generated using one or more of the following:

concatenative synthesis, speech databases comprising speech units, or foreign language translation devices.

11. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said server, user, and transmitter are connected by a network medium.

12. The personalized message transmission system of claim 11, wherein said network medium comprises the internet, wide-area networks, or local-area networks.

13. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said transmitter comprises an antenna or a satellite dish.

14. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said server may be configured to host one or more websites accessible by and providing a user interface for said user.

15. The personalized message transmission system of claim 14, wherein said user may enter said messages onto said one or more websites.

16. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said one or more messages are adapted for receipt by one or more of the following:

radios, televisions, satellite television receivers, shortwave radios, or cellular telephones.

17. The personalized message transmission system of claim 6, wherein said server can be configured to accept payment from said user in exchange for said provider coordinating transmission of said messages.

18. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said transmitter may receive messages in digital or analog format.

19. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, wherein said server may convert digitally-formatted audio messages into analog audio signal for transmission.

20. The personalized message transmission system of claim 1, further comprising a device platform for receiving a signal from said transmitter, said platform re-transmitting said signal, which is receivable by said user as a confirmation message.

21. A personalized message transmission system, comprising:

a user;

a non-traditional recipient;

a server configured to receive one or more messages from said user, said server converting said one or more messages to a transmittable format;

a transmitter, said transmitter receiving and transmitting said one or more converted messages to said non-traditional recipient; and

a device platform for receiving a signal from said transmitter, said platform re-transmitting said signal to said user as a confirmation message.

22. The personalized message transmission system of claim 21, wherein said non-traditional recipient may comprise one or more of:

a departed loved one, a higher power, an alien, an astronaut, Santa Claus, the heavens, space, the universe, or the North Pole.

23. The personalized message transmission system of claim 21, wherein said device platform comprises a satellite.

24. A method for use in transmitting a personalized message to a non-traditional recipient, comprising:

providing a user for drafting or otherwise providing one or more personalized messages;

providing a device for said user to enter said one or more messages onto;

providing a server for receiving said one or more messages and converting said messages into a transmittable format; and

providing a transmitter for receiving said converted messages, with said transmitter transmitting said one or more messages to said recipient.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising a provider website accessible by said user, said website hosted by said server, wherein said user enters said messages into fields provided by said website.

26. The method of claim 24, said server converting a text-based message into synthesized speech compatible for receipt by said transmitter.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein said user customizes said one or more messages by choosing from a variety of backgrounds, occasions, voices to read the message to said recipient, images, and music.