ASSOCIATION OF CONTEXT DATA WITH A VOICE-MESSAGE COMPONENT

• US 20100145702A1
• Filed: 02/16/2010
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Amit
• Granted Patent: US 9,042,921 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/258
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of associating a context data with a voice-message component. The context data may be encoded into a voice message signal. The context-data may be associated with the voice-message component according to an attribute of the voice message. The attribute of the voice message may include at least one of a word, a phrase, a voice timbre, a duration of a pause between two words, a volume a voice and an ambient sound voice and a duration of a pause between two words. The context data may be selected according to a meaning of the attribute of the voice-message component.

Claims

1. A method comprising associating a context data with a voice-message component.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

encoding the context data into a voice message signal.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the voice message comprises a short voice message.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

associating the context-data with the voice-message component according to an attribute of the voice message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the attribute of the voice message comprises at least one of a word, a phrase, a voice timbre, a duration of a pause between two words, a volume of a voice and an ambient sound.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

determining a meaning of the attribute of the voice-message component.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

selecting the context data according to the meaning of the attribute of the voice-message component.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying at least one ambient sound of the voice message with a sound recognition algorithm.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying at least one speaker of the voice message with a voice recognition algorithm.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

selecting the context data according to a state of a mobile device used to generate the voice message.

11. A method comprising:

providing a voice-message application;

generating a voice message with the voice-message application;

determining a context-data related to a voice-message component; and

linking the context-data with the voice-message component.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the voice-message application comprises at least one of a voice-mail application, a short voice-message application, a voice short-message service (SMS) application, an interne protocol (IP) telephony voice communication application and a cellular network voice call application.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

providing a voice-message application of a mobile device.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

acquiring the context-data with a sensor of the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

acquiring a supplemental information about the context-data from a data store comprising at least one of a historical context-data information, voice recognition data, and sound recognition data.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

acquiring the supplemental information about the context-data from at least one of a website and a third-party data base.

17. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

rendering the linkage of the context-data with the voice-message component into a form suitable for communication across a computer network.

18. A system comprising:

a processor;

a computer-readable memory communicatively coupled with the processor;

a voice-message application resident on the computer-readable memory to generate a voice message; and

a context-data application to determine a context-data related to a voice-message component and to link the context-data with the voice-message component.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising:

a sensor to acquire the context data.

20. The system of claim 18 further comprising:

a microphone, and

wherein the voice-message application generates a voice message from a signal provided by the microphone.

21. The system of claim 18 further comprising:

a machine-learning application to incorporate intelligence into the one context-data application.