System and method of identifying contact information

• US 8,060,373 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2007
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shahraray, Behzad, Liu, Zhu, Renger, Bernard S., Gibbon, David C., Karam, Gerald Michael, Begeja, Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Rider; Justin
• Application Number:
  US11/726,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235012A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,700 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A system and method for identifying contact information is provided. A system to identify contact information may include an input to receive a data stream. The data stream may include audio content, video content or both. The system may also include an analysis module to detect contact information within the data stream. The system may also include a memory to store a record of the contact information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a receiver device, a data stream comprising video content that includes a plurality of video frames, wherein contact information is depicted in at least one video frame of the plurality of video frames;

analyzing the at least one video frame to identify the contact information; and

in response to determining that the contact information was not previously stored, storing a record of the contact information at a memory that is accessible to the receiver device, wherein the record of the contact information comprises a record of the at least one frame of the video content associated with the contact information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the at least one video frame comprises performing automated pattern recognition on the at least one video frame to identify the contact information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises determining when the contact information was last identified in the video content before storing the record.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting a user interface to enable a user to initiate a communication based on the contact information.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting a user interface including information regarding at least one historical contact information record.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting a user interface including the contact information and the at least one frame of the video content associated with the contact information.

7. A receiver device comprising:

a processor;

a memory accessible to the processor, the memory including operational instructions that are executable by the processor;

an input to receive a data stream including video content;

an analysis module that is executable by the processor to;

analyze a plurality of frames of the video content to identify contact information depicted within at least one of the plurality of frames; and

a user interface module that is executable by the processor to generate a user interface display including the contact information,

wherein the operational instructions are executable by the processor to store a record of the contact information in the memory, wherein the record of the contact information comprises a record of the at least one frame of the video content associated with the contact information.

8. The receiver device of claim 7, further comprising a communication interface responsive to the user interface module to initiate a communication based on the contact information in response to user input via the user interface display.

9. The receiver device of claim 7, wherein the data stream further comprises audio content associated with the video content, and wherein the analysis module analyzes the audio content to detect contact information within the audio content.

10. A tangible non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable instructions, wherein the computer readable instructions are executable by a processor to:

receive a data stream comprising video content, wherein contact information is depicted within the video content;

analyze a plurality of frames of the video content to identify the contact information within at least one of the plurality of frames;

provide a user interface display to enable a user to initiate a communication based on the contact information; and

store a record of the contact information, wherein the record of the contact information comprises a record of the at least one frame of the video content associated with the contact information.

11. The tangible non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the contact information includes at least one of a network address, a mail address, and a telephone number.

12. The tangible non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the computer readable instructions are further executable by the processor to present a user interface including the contact information.

13. The tangible non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the computer readable instructions are further executable by the processor to store a record of at least one frame of the video data associated with the contact information.