Telephone-based user interface for participating simultaneously in more than one teleconference
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1. A teleconferencing method, comprising:
- (a) when a first call is on hold and a second call is active on a selected communication device, the selected communication device displaying on a display device a first text representation of a speech-to-text converted first voice stream received from at least a first endpoint involved in the first call, wherein the first text representation is prepared by a telecommunications system switch which decodes text packets that represent the first voice stream, wherein receiving of the first text representation at the selected communication device activates or redefines activators, wherein the activators are user interface controls on the selected communication device that permit a user to effect a selected operation, and wherein the activators allow the telecommunications system switch to provide, by a switch buffer, one or more of pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding of the first text representation; and
(b) the selected communication device simultaneously and audibly playing a second voice stream received from at least a second endpoint involved in the second call, wherein, during steps (a) and (b), the selected communication device does not receive at least one of the first voice stream and a second text representation of the second voice stream.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed, in one embodiment, to the simultaneous streaming of a text representation of a first voice stream from a first call to a telephone for display and transmitting of a second voice stream from a second call to the telephone for audible play to the user.
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1. A teleconferencing method, comprising:
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(a) when a first call is on hold and a second call is active on a selected communication device, the selected communication device displaying on a display device a first text representation of a speech-to-text converted first voice stream received from at least a first endpoint involved in the first call, wherein the first text representation is prepared by a telecommunications system switch which decodes text packets that represent the first voice stream, wherein receiving of the first text representation at the selected communication device activates or redefines activators, wherein the activators are user interface controls on the selected communication device that permit a user to effect a selected operation, and wherein the activators allow the telecommunications system switch to provide, by a switch buffer, one or more of pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding of the first text representation; and (b) the selected communication device simultaneously and audibly playing a second voice stream received from at least a second endpoint involved in the second call, wherein, during steps (a) and (b), the selected communication device does not receive at least one of the first voice stream and a second text representation of the second voice stream. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A teleconferencing method, comprising:
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receiving, from a selected communication device, a first command to put a first call on hold, the first call being between the selected communication device and at least a first endpoint; placing the first call on hold; while the first call is on hold, providing to the selected communication device for visual display a speech-to-text converted first text representation of a first voice stream received from the at least a first endpoint, wherein the first text representation is prepared by a telecommunications system switch which decodes text packets that represent the first voice stream, wherein receiving of the first text representation at the selected communication device activates or redefines the activators, wherein the activators are user interface controls on the selected communication device that permit a user to effect a selected operation, and wherein the activators allow the telecommunications system switch to provide, by a switch buffer, one or more of pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding of the first text representation; and while the first call is on hold, providing to the selected communication device for audible play a second voice stream received from at least a second endpoint, the at least a second endpoint being involved in a second call with the selected communication device, the first and second calls being independent of one another. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A telecommunications switch, comprising:
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first and second inputs operable to receive first and second voice streams, respectively, the first and second voice streams being associated respectively with different and concurrent first and second calls, a selected subscriber communication device being a participant in each of the first and second calls; a speech-to-text module operable to convert the first voice stream into a first textual representation of the first voice stream; and a multiplexing agent operable to provide simultaneously to the selected subscriber communication device the first textual representation of the first voice stream for visual display on a display device to the subscriber and the second voice stream for audible play to the subscriber, whereby the subscriber can simultaneously participate in the first and second calls, wherein the first textual representation is prepared by a telecommunications system switch which decodes text packets that represent the first voice stream, wherein receiving the first textual representation at the selected subscriber communication device activates or redefines activators, wherein the activators are user interface controls on the selected subscriber communication device that permit a user to effect a selected operation, and wherein the activators allow the switch to provide, by a switch buffer, one or more of pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding of the first textual representation. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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