Method for presenting personalized, voice printed messages from online digital devices to hosted services

• US 7,853,659 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2008
• Issued: 12/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jia, Bin, Hindle, Guy Patrick, Cowen, Laura Jane
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung; Zarni
• Application Number:
  US12/277,464
• Publication Number:
  US 20100131601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 709206-207, 709223-229, 709/231, 709/236, 709/250
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information

Abstract

A computer implemented method presents a personalized multimedia message to a user. A text based message is received from a sender. Responsive to receiving the text based message, a sender profile is identified within a digital device host registry, the sender profile corresponding to the sender identifier. Responsive to identifying the sender profile within a digital device host registry, a set of corresponding personalized media channels associated with the sender profile is identified. The set of corresponding personalized media channels includes at least one of a voice profile, a static image, and lip synchronization data. The text based message is then augmented with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message. The multimedia message comprises an audio file of the text message rendered by using the voice profile, a “video” file of text message rendered by using the voice profile, and the static image with the lip synchronization data, or a combination thereof. The multimedia message is then presented to the user.

Claims

1. A method of presenting a personalized multimedia message to a user, comprising:

receiving a text based message from a sender, the message including a sender identifier;

responsive to receiving the text based message, connecting through a network to a digital device host registry;

responsive to receiving the text based message, identifying a sender profile within the digital device host registry, the sender profile corresponding to the sender identifier;

responsive to identifying the sender profile within a digital device host registry, identifying a set of corresponding personalized media channels from within the digital device host registry, wherein corresponding personalized media channels are the associated with the sender profile, wherein the set of corresponding personalized media channels includes at least one of a voice profile, a static image, and lip synchronization data;

augmenting the text based message with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message, wherein the multimedia message comprises a audio file of the text message rendered by using the voice profile, a “

video”

file of text message rendered by using the voice profile, and the static image with the lip synchronization data, or a combination thereof, wherein the step of augmenting the text based message with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message comprises converting the text based message to a voice message based on the sender voice profile; and

presenting the multimedia message to the user.