Scalable message fidelity

• US 8,700,072 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2008
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RCS IP LLC
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pascal, Kristin Marie, Klonsky, Andrew Evan, Bailey, Matthew James
• Primary Examiner(s): SIVJI, NIZAR N
• Application Number:
  US12/342,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20100159965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,939 Days
• Field of Search: 455/406, 455/466, 455/412, 455/1, 375/240, 386/120, 709/227, 345/660, 345/667, 345/670, 345/671
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/40 using video transcoding, i.e. partial or full decoding of a coded input stream followed by re-encoding of the decoded output stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Message content is scaled to support rich messaging. Devices and associated messaging systems can support various levels of content richness or fidelity. Message content scaling is employed to ensure sharing of content in as rich a manner as possible given limitations associated with various messaging systems, among other things. Messages can be scaled down or degraded, for instance where communicating devices do not support high fidelity content being transmitted. Alternatively, messages can be scaled up or enriched in cases, where low fidelity content is transmitted to a device supporting richer content, for example.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving, from a first communication device, message data comprising visual media content and metadata that describes the visual media content, wherein the message data is directed to a second communication device;

in response to determining that a first display format supported by the first communication device is different from a second display format supported by the second communication device, converting, based on the metadata, the visual media content to textual media content that describes a visual object represented by the visual media content;

subsequent to facilitating a transmission of the textual media content to the second communication device, directing, to the first communication device and the second communication device, notification data that specifies that the message data transmitted by the first communication device has been converted to textual media content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual media content comprises video data and the textual media content represents a textual description of a summary of the video data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual media content comprises video data and the converting comprises:

extracting audio data from the video data, and

determining the textual media content based on a speech-to-text conversion of the audio data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the textual media content comprises link data indicative of a link to a location where the visual media content is stored.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual media content comprises image data representing an image and the textual media content is indicative of text that describes the visual object represented by the image.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual media content comprises map data representing an image of a map and the textual media content comprises information that describes a location on the map.

7. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor, message data comprising visual media content and metadata that describes the visual media content, wherein the message data is received from a first communication device and directed to a second communication device;

in response to determining that a first display capability of the first communication device is different from a second display capability of the second communication device, determining, by the system, textual media content comprising description data that describes a visual object represented by the visual media content, wherein the determining comprises determining the textual media content based on the metadata; and

subsequent to the textual media content being transmitted to the second communication device, directing, by the system, notification data that is indicative of a replacement of the visual media content with textual media content to the first communication device and the second communication device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the visual media content comprises video data and the determining the textual media content comprises determining textual description of a summary of the video data.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the determining the textual media content comprises determining, based on the metadata, link data indicative of a link that facilitates access to the visual media content.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the determining that the first display capability is different from the second display capability comprises receiving information associated with the second display capability from a network device of a social network service.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the determining that the first display capability is different from the second display capability comprises receiving information associated with the second display capability from the second communication device.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving, from a first communication device, message data comprising first media data and metadata that describes the first media data, wherein the message data is directed to a second communication device;

in response to determining that a first display format supported by the first communication device does not match a second display format supported by the second communication device, directing, to the second communication device, second media data that describes content represented by the first media data, wherein the second media data is determined based on a conversion of the first media data in accordance with the metadata; and

facilitating a transmission of notification data to the first communication device and the second communication device, wherein the notification data specifies that the first media data transmitted by the first communication device has been converted to second media data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents an image and the second media data represents a textual description of the image.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents a video and the second media data represents a textual description of a summary of the video.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents a video and the second media data represents a set of images that summarizes the video.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents an audio clip and the second media data represents a transcript of the audio clip.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents an image and the second media data represents a hyperlink that provides access to the image.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents hyperlink that provides access to an image and the second media data represents the image.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents a web page and the second media data represents an image of the web page.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first media data represents a web page and the second media data represents a textual description of a content of the web page.