Automated method and system for obtaining user-selected real-time information on a mobile communication device

• US 8,566,100 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2012
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stripe, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Inventors: Ortiz, Luis M., Verna, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Smits, Talivaldis Ivars
• Application Number:
  US13/586,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20120330668A1
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/260
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function

Abstract

A customized live tile application module can be configured in association with the mobile communication device in order to automatically vocalize the real-time information preselected by a user in a multitude of languages. A text-to-speech application module can be integrated with the customized live tile application module to automatically vocalize the preselected real-time information. The real-time information can be obtained from a tile and/or a website integrated with a remote server and announced after a text to speech conversion process without opening the tile, if the tiles are selected for announcement of information by the device. Such an approach automatically and instantly pushes a vocal alert with respect to the user-selected real-time information on the mobile communication device thereby permitting the user to continue multitasking. Information from tiles can also be rendered on second screens from a mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining user-selected real-time information on a mobile communication device from a tile displayed on the mobile device and selected by the user, comprising:

configuring a customized live tile application module in association with a first mobile communication device in order to selectively provide real-time information preselected by a user for rendering as at least one of speech to a speaker integrated in the first mobile communication device, speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device;

obtaining said real-time information with said first mobile communication device from a live tile displayed on the mobile device and selected by the user by retrieving said real-time tile information from a remote server; and

selectively providing at least one of said tile and said tile information for rendering as at least one of speech to a speaker integrated in the first mobile communication device, speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said tile information is provided as at least one of speech to a speaker integrated in the first mobile communication device or speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device after a text to speech conversion process in said first mobile communication device without opening said tile if said tile is selected on said first mobile communication device for announcement of said real-time information by said mobile first communication device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically and instantly pushing a vocal alert with respect to said real-time information thereby permitting said user to multitask.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising programming said customized live tile application module to search said real-time information from a website integrated with said remote server.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying said real time information on a double-tile space of said mobile communication device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating information from a plurality of tiles to a parent application so that said real-time information from more than one tile is rendered.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically updating at least one new notification with respect to said tile wherein said tile provides information from a plurality of applications.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said tile comprises sports information.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said tile comprises a location-based service.

10. The method for obtaining user-selected real-time information on a mobile communication device from a tile displayed on the mobile device and selected by the user of claim 1, wherein said tile is an instant football widget tile providing sports game information including ball location and score information as said real-time information.

11. A method for programing a mobile device to obtain user-selected real-time information associated with a tile displayed on the mobile communication device, comprising:

configuring a customized live tile application module in association with a first mobile communication device in order to selectively provide real-time information preselected by a user in a plurality of languages for rendering as at least one of speech to a speaker integrated in the first mobile communication device, speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device;

integrating a text-to-speech application module with said customized live tile application module to automatically vocalize said preselected real-time information in a language selected by the user;

obtaining said real-time information with said first mobile communication device from stored information integrated within a remote server associated with real-time information preselected by the user to announce said real-time information after a text to speech conversion process without opening said tile if said tile is selected on said mobile communication device for rendering by the user; and

selectively providing at least one of said tile and said tile information for rendering as at least one of speech to a speaker integrated in the first mobile communication device, speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising automatically and instantly pushing a vocal alert with respect to said real-time information thereby permitting said user to multitask.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising programming said customized live tile application module to search said real-time information from a website integrated with said remote server.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising displaying said real time information on a double-tile space of said mobile communication device.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising communicating information from a plurality of tiles to a parent application so that said real-time information from more than one tile is rendered.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising automatically updating at least one new notification with respect to said tile wherein said tile provides information from a plurality of applications.

17. The method for programing a mobile device to obtain user-selected real-time information associated with a tile displayed on the mobile communication device of claim 11, wherein said tile is an instant football widget tile providing sports game information including ball location and score information as said real-time information.

18. A mobile device programmed to obtaining user-selected real-time information associated with a tile displayed on the mobile communication device, comprising:

a customized live tile application module provided in association with the mobile communication device and configured to selectively;

vocalize real-time information preselected by a user in a plurality of languages to a speaker integrated in the mobile communication device;

vocalize real-time information preselected by a user in a plurality of languages to a speaker wirelessly associated with the mobile communication device;

or display the real-time information preselected by a user on a flat panel display wirelessly connected to the mobile communication device;

a text-to-speech application module with said customized live tile application module to automatically vocalize said preselected real-time information in a language selected by the user.

19. The mobile device of claim 18, wherein real-time information obtained from a tile information integrated within a remote server is provided to the text-to-speech application module to process the information for the mobile communication device to announce said real-time information after a text to speech conversion process without opening said tile if said tile is selected on said mobile communication device for announcement of said real-time information by said mobile communication device.

20. The mobile device of claim 18, further comprising an instant football widget tile providing sports game information including ball location and score information as said real-time information.