SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING AUDIO CLIPS WITH OBJECTS

• US 20130094636A1
• Filed: 09/06/2012
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audio Messaging Inc. (Quest Patent Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Voicecaptionlt Incorporated
• Inventors: Bowerman, Jarold, Mancini, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,088,667 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/00 Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42323 PBX's with CTI arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53383 Message registering commands or announcements; Greetings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A system and method for associating an audio clip with an object is provided wherein the voice-based system, such as a voicemail system, is used to record the audio clips.

Claims

1. A system for associating an audio clip with an object, comprising:

an object hosting unit that stores at least one object having a unique identifier;

a voice-based system, separate from the object hosting system but coupled to the object hosting unit wherein an audible message with an identifier for a particular user is stored in the voice-based system for the object having the unique identifier;

wherein the object hosting unit further comprises a unit that associates the audible message with the object having the unique identifier so that the audible message can be accessed when the object is accessed; and

a computing device that accesses the object hosting unit over a link to access the object and the audible message.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the object hosting unit further comprises a data store configured to store a plurality of objects and information associated with each object.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the information associated with each object further comprises the audible message associated with the object, one or more voice comments associated with the object, one or more ratings of the object and one or more tags associated with the object.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the data store further comprises one or more database servers and one or more file servers wherein the database servers store the objects and the messages associated with the objects.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice-based system further comprises one of a voice over IP system and a voicemail system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the object hosting unit further comprises a plurality of server computers.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the voice-based unit further comprises one or more Asterisk servers that control the voice-based unit and wherein the object hosting unit further comprises one or more web servers.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the objects each further comprise one of a digital picture and an image.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the object hosting unit further comprises one or more web servers and wherein the system further comprises a one or more computing devices that establish a session with the one or more web servers and wherein each computing device further comprises a processing unit that executes a browser application that interacts with the web servers using a plurality of web pages to which the session is established and wherein each computing device further comprises one of a personal computer, a mobile telephone, a PDA, a Blackberry device, a wireless email device, a portable computing Windows CE-based device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice-based system further comprises a voice-based device associated with a user and wherein the voice-based device is one of a telephone, a cellular phone, a mobile phone and a voice over IP based phone.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the voice-based system is configured to call the voice-based device of the user.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the user calls the voice-based system using the voice-based device.

13. A computer implemented method for associating an audio clip with an object, the method comprising:

storing at least one object having a unique identifier on an object hosting unit;

generating an audible message with an identifier for a particular user using a voice-based system;

associating the audible message with the identifier for the particular user with the object having the unique identifier;

converting the audible message with the identifier for the particular user from the voice-based system into an audio clip format; and

associating the audio clip with the object having the unique identifier so that the audio clip can be accessed when the object is accessed.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising storing, in a data store, a plurality of objects and information associated with each object.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the information associated with each object further comprises the audible message associated with the object, one or more voice comments associated with the object, one or more ratings of the object and one or more tags associated with the object.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the objects each further comprise one of a digital picture and an image.

17. The method of claim 13 further comprising establishing a session, by a browser application of a computing device, with a web server of the object hosting unit and interacting with the web server using a plurality of web pages.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein generating the audible message further comprises using a voice-based device associated with the user to contact the voice-based system.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein generating the audible message further comprises automatically calling a voice-based device of the user to generate the audible message.