Memory management terminal and method for handling acoustic samples

• US 6,889,039 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2001
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Osman, Ashraf
• Primary Examiner(s): APPIAH, CHARLES NANA
• Application Number:
  US09/780,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20010014600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,541 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556.1, 455/569.1, 455/412.1, 455/563, 455/556.2, 455/550.1, 455/414.1, 370/313, 379/88.01, 379/88.08, 379/88.09, 379/88.28, 379/85, 379/88.17, 379/88.11, 379/88.27, 369/25.01, 369/29.02, 369/29.01, 704/270, 704/275, 386/125, 386/126
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/656 for recording conversations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A memory management terminal for handling recorded acoustic samples and generating an electronic representation of the acoustic sample for being represented in categories in a hierarchical memory structure, and including means in order to enable later retrieval of the acoustic samples, where the terminal has means for enabling each electronic representation of the acoustic sample to be assigned a category-label and that electronic representations with the same category-label can be played back together. The terminal includes: means for assigning each electronic representation of said acoustic sample with a category-label, means for recording the electronic representation of the acoustic sample, means for storing each category-labelled group of electronic representations, means for retrieving the electronic representations with a certain category-label, playback means and means for organising the electronic representations.

The claimed invention also includes a method for handling recorded acoustic samples and generating an electronic representation of the acoustic sample in order to enable later retrieval of the electronic representations.

Claims

1. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples in a mobile phone represented in categories in a hierarchical memory structure comprising:

recording an acoustic sample and generating an electronic representation of said acoustic sample in said memory structure, said electronic representation of said acoustic sample being retrievable from said memory structure and played back,

assigning a label of each electronic representation of said acoustic sample, said label includes a category in said memory structure and a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, said assigning including;

assigning each electronic representation of said acoustic sample a default or user-defined category in said memory structure,

assigning a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample,

assigning a sorting criteria, and

assigning date, time and duration of record to the electronic representation of said acoustic sample,

displaying the name of said electronic representation of said acoustic sample under the assigned category in said memory structure, the displaying including an indication whether said acoustic sample has been played back or not, and

playing back said electronic representation of said acoustic sample from a selected category in said memory structure

wherein the mobile phone is compatible for use in a GSM network.

2. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 1, wherein said acoustic sample includes voice memos.

3. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 1, wherein the displaying of the electronic representation of said acoustic sample in said memory structure includes a hierarchy of said categories names enable retrieval of electronic representation assigned with a certain category label.

4. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 1, wherein said electronic representation of said acoustic sample is assigned a label including a category in said memory structure and a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, coincident with said recording of said acoustic sample and generation of an electronic representation of said acoustic sample.

5. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 1, wherein said sorting criteria comprises at least one of a date and a priority.

6. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 1, wherein said electronic representation of said acoustic sample assigned to one label or category-label can be transferred to another label or category-label in the memory structure, renamed or deleted, and that a label or category-label can be added to the memory structure, renamed or deleted.

7. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 6, wherein said label or category-label can be a default label or category-label or user-defined label or category-label.

8. A method for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 1, wherein displaying of the electronic representations assigned to one label or category-label can be altered by changing sorting criteria of the electronic representations, change of the name of the electronic representations, deleting some of the electronic representations or transferring electronic representations to another label or category-label in the memory structure.

9. A memory management terminal comprising a mobile phone for handling recorded acoustic samples represented in categories in a hierarchical memory structure comprising:

recording means for recording an acoustic sample and generating an electronic representation of said acoustic sample in said memory structure, said electronic representation of said acoustic sample being retrievable from said memory structure and played back,

inputting means for assigning a label of each electronic representation of said acoustic sample, said label includes a category in said memory structure and a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, wherein said assigning of a label to each electronic representation of said acoustic sample includes;

assigning each electronic representation of said acoustic sample a default or user-defined category in said memory structure,

assigning a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample,

assigning a sorting criteria, and

assigning date, time and duration of record to the electronic representation of said acoustic sample, and

outputting means for displaying the name of said electronic representation of said acoustic sample under the assigned category in said memory structure and said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, and an indication whether said acoustic sample has been played back or not

wherein the mobile phone is compatible for use in a GSM network.

10. A memory management terminal for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 9, wherein said handled acoustic sample includes voice memos.

11. A memory management terminal for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 9, wherein said electronic representation could be a MIDI-file or any similar file-type for electronic representation of an acoustic sample.

12. A memory management terminal for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 11, wherein inputting means includes that said electronic representation is assigned a category in said memory structure and a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, coincident with said recording of said acoustic sample and generation of an electronic representation of said acoustic sample.

13. A memory management terminal for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 9, wherein the outputting means for representing the name of said electronic representation of said acoustic sample under the assigned category in said memory structure and representing said electronic representation of said acoustic sample includes displaying said name of said electronic representation in a display of said memory management terminal and playback the electronic representation of said acoustic sample.

14. A memory management terminal for handling recorded acoustic samples according to claim 12, wherein the outputting means includes said electronic representation of said acoustic sample assigned to one label or category-label can be transferred to another label or category-label in the memory structure, renamed or deleted, and that a label or category-label can be added to the memory structure, renamed or deleted, and that said label or category-label can be a default label or category-label or user-defined label, and that the displaying of the electronic representations assigned to one label or category-label can be altered by changing sorting criteria of the electronic representations, change of the name of the electronic representations, deleting some of the electronic representations or transferring electronic representations to another label or category-label in the memory structure.