INTELLIGENT TEXT MESSAGE-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL VOICE MAIL

• US 20110300833A1
• Filed: 06/08/2010
• Published: 12/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shaw, Venson M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,355,703 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/413
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/10 with dictation recording and playback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53333 Message receiving aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5335 Message type or catagory, e.g. priority, indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A visual voicemail system can convert visual voicemail message content to an alternate format based on the location of the recipient device, whether and how the recipient device is in motion, a priority of the message content, user preferences, or other criteria. Alternately, a recipient wireless device may also convert content to an alternate format based on the similar criteria. Content may be presented automatically to a user on recipient device based on such criteria. Content may be converted from audio to text, text to audio, or from any format to any other format. Location, motion data, user preferences, etc. may be obtained from a location based service system, a recipient wireless device, or any other source.

Claims

1. A method of providing intelligent visual voicemail message content conversion, the method comprising:

determining a location of a recipient wireless device;

determining, based on the location, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in a first format to a second format;

converting the first visual voicemail message content from the first format to second visual voicemail message content in the second format; and

transmitting the second visual voicemail message content to the recipient wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a priority of the first visual voicemail message content, wherein determining, based on the location, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to the second format comprises determining, based on the location and the priority, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to the second format.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting an instruction to immediately present the second visual voicemail message content on the recipient wireless device based on the priority.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a user preference for the first visual voicemail message content, wherein determining, based on the location, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to the second format comprises determining, based on the location and the user preference, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to the second format.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining motion data for the recipient wireless device, wherein determining, based on the location, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to the second format comprises determining, based on the location and the motion data, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to the second format.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein converting the first visual voicemail message content from the first format to the second visual voicemail message content in the second format comprises converting the first visual voicemail message content from text format to the second visual voicemail message content in audio format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the location of the recipient wireless device comprises receiving the location from a location based services system.

8. A wireless device configured to provide intelligent visual voicemail message content conversion, the wireless device comprising:

a transceiver configured to;

receive first visual voicemail message content in a first format; and

a processor configured to;

determine motion data for the wireless device,

determine, based on the motion data, to convert the first visual voicemail message content in the first format to a second format;

convert the first visual voicemail message content from the first format to second visual voicemail message content in the second format; and

present the second visual voicemail message content to a user.

9. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the processor configured to determine motion data comprises the processor configured to receive the motion data from a motion detection component configured on the wireless device.

10. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive the motion data from a location based services system.

11. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the processor configured to determine the motion data comprises the processor configured to receive the motion data from a global positioning system component configured on the wireless device.

12. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a priority for the first visual voicemail message content and determine that the second visual voicemail message content should be presented to a user immediately based on the priority.

13. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a user preference, and determine, based on the user preference and the motion data, that the first visual voicemail message content in the first format should be converted to the second format.

14. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the processor configured to convert the first visual voicemail message content from the first format to the second visual voicemail message content in the second format comprises the processor configured to convert the first visual voicemail message content from an audio format to the second visual voicemail message content in text format.

15. A system for providing intelligent visual voicemail message content conversion, the system comprising:

a location based services system configured to determine a location for a wireless device; and

a visual voicemail system configured to;

receive first visual voicemail content in a first format;

receive the location from the location based services system;

determine, based on the location, to convert the first visual voicemail content from the first format to a second format; and

convert the first visual voicemail content in the first format to second visual voicemail content in the second format.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the location based services system configured to determine the location for the wireless device comprised the location based services system configured to determine motion data for the wireless device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the visual voicemail system configured to receive the location from the location based services system comprises the visual voicemail system configured to receive motion data from the location based services system, and wherein the visual voicemail system configured to determine, based on the location, to convert the first visual voicemail content from the first format to the second format comprises the visual voicemail system configured to determine, based on the motion data, to convert the first visual voicemail content should from the first format to the second format.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the visual voicemail system is further configured to:

determine a user preference; and

determine, based on the user preference, to convert the first visual voicemail content from the first format to the second format

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the user preference comprises a time of day.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the visual voicemail system is further configured to:

determine a priority for the first visual voicemail content; and

determine, based on the priority, to convert the first visual voicemail content from the first format to the second format