Method for integrating audio and visual messaging

• US 7,957,695 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2009
• Issued: 06/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Helferich Patent Licensing LLC
• Original Assignee: Wireless Science LLC
• Inventors: Helferich, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming; William D
• Application Number:
  US12/625,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20100075640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 455/15, 455/411, 455/436, 455/466, 379/88.17, 379/88.18, 370/296, 370/341, 715/752
• US Class Current: 455/15
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6421 Medium of transmission, e.g. fibre, cable, radio, satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6472 Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6475 N-ISDN, Public Switched Telephone Network [PSTN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6481 Speech, voice
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6483 Video, e.g. MPEG
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5307 for recording messages comprising any combination of audio and non-audio components
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

The present invention provides a communication system for integrating audio and visual messaging. The communication system includes a mobile communication device for receiving visual messages and for transmitting voice messages to a recipient, a base station system in communication with the mobile communication device, an electronic mail gateway for delivering visual messages to the base station system for transmission to the mobile communication device, and an integrated mail gateway for receiving from the base station a voice message and addressing information that were both transmitted from the mobile communication device. The integrated mail gateway is programmed to create an e-mail message comprising the voice message. The integrated mail gateway is also programmed to use the addressing information to address the e-mail message, and to send the addressed e-mail message to the recipient.

Claims

1. A method for integrating voice and text messaging comprising:

an integrated mail gateway (i) storing a text message, and (ii) receiving reply messaging data and voice data from a first wireless cellular messaging device as a response to a text message;

the integrated mail gateway, upon receiving the reply messaging data and voice data, using said reply messaging data to generate a message for transmission to a second wireless cellular messaging device, the message including said text message from the memory and the voice data.