Mapping text and audio information in text messaging devices and methods therefor

• US 7,013,154 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Issued: 03/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nowlan, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q.
• Application Number:
  US10/184,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20040192355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,356 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/566, 455/420, 455/414.4, 455/412.1, 455/413, 455/415, 455/418, 455/432.3, 455/425, 455/3.06, 340/7.58, 340/2.62, 340/2.58, 379/142.06
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• 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 text messaging device and methods including receiving a text message (510), determining whether text in the text message corresponds to reference text associated with audio information stored on the text messaging device (520), playing audio on the text messaging device corresponding to the audio information associated with the reference text if any text in the text message corresponds to the reference text associated with the audio information stored on the text messaging device (530), and displaying any text in the incoming text message that corresponds to the reference text associated with the audio information (540).

Claims

1. A method in a mobile wireless communication device, comprising:

receiving an incoming text message,

determining whether text in the incoming text message corresponds to reference text associated with audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device;

playing audio on the mobile wireless communication device corresponding to the audio information associated with the reference text if any text in the incoming text message corresponds to the reference text associated with the audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, playing the audio upon receipt of the text message by the mobile wireless communication device.

3. The method of claim 1, playing the audio upon opening the text message on the mobile wireless communication device.

4. The method of claim 1,

determining whether text in the incoming text message corresponds to reference text associated with the audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device by comparing text in the incoming text message with the reference text stored previously on the mobile wireless communication device in association with the audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device.

10. The method of claim 1, displaying any text in the incoming text message that corresponds to the reference text associated with the audio information.

5. A method in a mobile wireless communication device, comprising:

identifying text;

associating the identified text with audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device by mapping the identified text to the audio information;

storing the identified text associated with the audio information on the mobile wireless communication device.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving an incoming message;

determining whether text in the incoming text message matches the identified text associated with the audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device;

playing sound on the mobile wireless communication device based on the audio information associated with the identified text if the text in the incoming text message matches the identified text associated with the audio information.

7. The method of claim 5, mapping the identified text to the audio information on the mobile wireless communication device by storing, on the mobile wireless communication device, an ASCII string corresponding to the identified text and a corresponding audio information reference identifying the audio information associated with the identified text.

8. The method of claim 5, associating the identified text with the audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device by mapping an ASCII string corresponding to the identified text and an audio information reference in a multi-element table structure stored on the mobile wireless communication device.

11. The method of claim 5,

receiving an incoming text message:

playing sound on the mobile wireless communication device based on the audio information associated with the identified text if text in the incoming text message matches the identified text associated with audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device.

12. The method of claim 5,

identifying text by selecting text displayed in a first text message;

receiving an incoming text message after identifying text;

playing sound on the mobile wireless communication device based on the audio information associated with the identified text if text in the incoming text message matches the identified text.

13. The method of claim 12, determining whether text in the incoming text message matches the identified text associated with the audio information stored on the mobile wireless communication device by comparing text in the incoming message with the identified text.

9. A method in a wireless communications device, comprising:

receiving an incoming text message having text;

performing a function on the communications device associated with the text in the incoming text message;

displaying the text of the incoming text message on a display of the communications device,

performing the function on the wireless communication device includes playing audio stored on the wireless communication device in association with reference text matching the text in the incoming text message.