COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PROVIDING VALUE-ADDED INFORMATION BASED UPON CONTENT AND/OR CONTEXT INFORMATION

• US 20100111071A1
• Filed: 11/06/2008
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Inventors: KHARE, Aniruddha
• Granted Patent: US 9,491,573 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/008 Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A communication device, for use in a communication network, provides value-added information to a user of the communication device. The communication device includes a transceiver, operable to transmit and receive communications over the communication network, and a processor. The processor is operable to facilitate detecting context information representative of an environment in which the communication device is operated, detecting content information of a multi-directional communication stream by identifying significant words in the communication stream, encoding the detected context and content information as meta-information, transmitting the meta-information as a request for value-added information, receiving value-added information in response, and providing the value-added information to the user of the communication device. A method for providing value-added information to a user of a communication device and a communication system for providing value-added information are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for providing value-added information to a user of a communication device, comprising:

detecting context information representative of an environment in which the communication device is operated;

detecting content information of a multi-directional communication stream transmitted and received in a communication network by the communication device by identifying significant words in the multi-directional communication stream;

encoding the detected context information and the detected content information as meta-information;

acquiring the value-added information by performing real-time processing using the meta-information; and

providing the value-added information to the user of the communication device.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein

detecting content information is performed using speech recognition on the multi-directional communication stream.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein detecting context information further comprises:

detecting context information representative of an environment in which at least one other communication device in the communication network is operated.

4. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

encoding information from previous communication streams as part of the meta-information.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein

acquiring the value-added information by performing real-time processing includes

the communication device transmitting, based on the meta-information, at least one request to retrieve the value-added information, and

the communication device receiving the value-added information, in response to the at least one request.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein

the communication device is a cellular phone;

the multi-directional communication stream is a cellular telephone call, and

acquiring the value-added information by performing real-time processing includes

the cellular phone transmitting, based on the meta-information, at least one request to retrieve the value-added information to at least one device connected to a packet network after the at least one request is transmitted through the cellular network, and

receiving by the cellular phone, through the cellular network, the value-added information, in response to the at least one request, provided by the at least one device connected to the packet network.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein

the communication device is a voice-over-packet (VOP) capable telephone;

the multi-directional communication stream is content in packets transmitted as part of a telephone call placed over a packet network; and

acquiring the value-added information by performing real-time processing includes

the VOP capable telephone transmitting, based on the meta-information, at least one request to retrieve value-added information to at least one device connected to the packet network, and

receiving by the VOP capable telephone the value-added information, in response to the at least one request, provided by the at least one device connected to the packet network.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein

detecting content information of a multi-directional communication stream includes detecting information about goods to be purchased by the user of the communication device, and

providing value-added information includes providing the user of the communication device with at least a list of vendors of the goods to be purchased.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein

detecting content information of a multi-directional communication stream includes detecting information about an appointment, and

providing value-added information includes providing the user of the communication device with appointment information regarding the time, date, and location of a scheduled appointment, the appointment information being automatically entered into a calendar application of the user of the communication device.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein

providing the value-added information to the user of the communication device includes displaying the value-added information on a display mechanism of the communication device.

11. A communication device, for use in a communication network and for providing value-added information to a user of the communication device, comprising:

a transceiver operable to transmit and receive communications over the communication network;

a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver, and configured to facilitate;

detecting context information representative of an environment in which the communication device is operated;

detecting content information of a multi-directional communication stream transmitted and received by the communication device by identifying significant words in the multi-directional communication stream;

encoding the detected context information and the detected content information as meta-information;

transmitting the meta-information as a request for the value-added information and receiving the value-added information in response; and

providing the value-added information to the user of the communication device.

12. A communication device according to claim 11, wherein

detecting content information is performed by the processor using speech recognition on the multi-directional communication stream.

13. A communication device according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to facilitate:

encoding information from previous communication streams as part of the meta-information.

14. A communication device according to claim 11, wherein detecting context information further comprises:

receiving context information representative of an environment in which at least one other communication device is operated.

15. A communication device according to claim 11, wherein

the communication device is a cellular telephone and the multi-directional communication stream is cellular telephone call.

16. A communication device according to claim 11, wherein

the communication device is a telephone capable of performing voice-over-packet (VOP) communication and the multi-directional communication stream is a telephone call placed over a packet network.

17. A communication system for providing value-added information, comprising:

at least two communication devices operable to communicate with each other, wherein

each communication device is configured to detect content information in a multi-directional communication stream between the at least two communication devices;

each communication device is configured to detect its own context information representative of an environment in which it operates and to receive context information representative of an environment in which at least one other of the at least two communication devices currently operates;

each communication device is configured to encode its own detected context information and detected content information as multi-dimensional meta-information;

each communication device is configured to acquire the value-added information by transmitting the meta-information it encodes and receiving the value-added information in response; and

each communication device is configured to provide the value-added information to its user.

18. A communication system according to claim 17, wherein

each communication device is configured to detect content information using speech recognition on the multi-directional communication stream.

19. A communication system according to claim 17, wherein

each communication device is a cellular phone and the multi-directional communication stream is a cellular telephone call placed over a cellular network.

20. A communication system according to claim 17, wherein

each communication device is a voice-over-packet (VOP) capable telephone and the multi-directional communication stream is packets transmitted as part of a telephone call placed over a packet network.