Asynchronous communications using messages recorded on handheld devices

• US 9,196,241 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Jaramillo, David, Redman, Jesse W., Thorson, Derral C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moise, Emmanuel L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yu, Xiang
• Application Number:
  US11/536,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082635A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,343 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/207
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/08 Speech classification or search
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/10 with dictation recording and playback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4518 Attachments to voicemail messages including annexed information, e.g. Attachments, in packet switching networks H04L51/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4527 Voicemail attached to other kind of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for asynchronous communications. Embodiments include receiving a recorded message, the message recorded on a handheld device; converting the recorded message to text; identifying a recipient of the message in dependence upon the text; associating the message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text; and storing the message for transmission to another handheld device for the recipient. Embodiments also typically include recording a message on handheld device and transferring a media file containing the recorded message to a library management system. Embodiments also typically include transmitting message to another handheld device.

Claims

1. A method for asynchronous communications, the method comprising:

receiving at a library management system a recorded speech message from a call of a sender to a handheld device of a recipient, wherein the recorded speech message was recorded by the sender for the recipient to listen to on the handheld device, and wherein the sender is a first human user and the recipient is a second human user;

converting the recorded speech message to text;

identifying a recipient of the recorded speech message in dependence upon the text;

extracting keywords from the text;

searching content under management for the keywords;

associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text, wherein associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprises identifying the associated content based on one or more of the keywords matching a title or metadata identification of the content under management; and

storing the recorded speech message and the associated content for transmission to another handheld device for the recipient.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording a speech message on handheld device and transferring a media file containing the recorded speech message to a library management system.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the recorded speech message to another handheld device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprises:

creating speech identifying the content associated with the recorded speech message; and

associating the speech with the recorded speech message for transmission with the recorded speech message.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the extracting of the keywords comprises extracting an explicit identification of the associated content from the text;

and

wherein the searching of the content comprises searching content under management for the identified content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content under management comprises recorded messages from other senders and content of other types including one or more of emails, media files containing media content, spreadsheets, presentations, RSS (“

Really Simple Syndication”

) feeds and web pages.

7. A system for asynchronous communications, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

receiving at a library management system a recorded speech message from a call of a sender to a handheld device of a recipient, wherein the recorded speech message was recorded by the sender for the recipient to listen to on the handheld device, and wherein the sender is a first human user and the recipient is a second human user;

converting the recorded speech message to text;

identifying a recipient of the recorded speech message in dependence upon the text;

extracting keywords from the text;

searching content under management for the keywords;

associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text, wherein associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprises identifying the associated content based on one or more of the keywords matching a title or metadata identification of the content under management; and

storing the recorded speech message and the associated content for transmission to another handheld device for the recipient.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the computer memory also has disposed with in it computer program instructions capable of:

recording a speech message on handheld device; and

transferring a media file containing the recorded speech message to a library management system.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the computer memory also has disposed with in it computer program instructions capable of transmitting the recorded speech message to another handheld device.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

creating speech identifying the content associated with the recorded speech message; and

associating the speech with the recorded speech message for transmission with the recorded speech message.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the extracting of the keywords comprises extracting an explicit identification of the associated content from the text;

and

wherein the searching of the content comprises searching content under management for the identified content.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the content under management comprises recorded messages from other senders and content of other types including one or more of emails, media files containing media content, spreadsheets, presentations, RSS (“

Really Simple Syndication”

) feeds and web pages.

13. A computer program product for asynchronous communications, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions for receiving at a library management system a recorded speech message from a call of a sender to a handheld device of a recipient, wherein the recorded speech message was recorded by the sender for the recipient to listen to on the handheld device, and wherein the sender is a first human user and the recipient is a second human user;

computer program instructions for converting the recorded speech message to text;

computer program instructions for identifying a recipient of the recorded speech message in dependence upon the text;

computer program instructions for extracting keywords from the text;

computer program instructions for searching content under management for the keywords;

computer program instructions for associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text, wherein associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprises identifying the associated content based on one or more of the keywords matching a title or metadata identification of the content under management; and

computer program instructions for storing the recorded speech message and the associated content for transmission to another handheld device for the recipient.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising computer program instructions for recording a speech message on handheld device and computer program instructions for transferring a media file containing the recorded speech message to a library management system.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising computer program instructions for transmitting the recorded speech message to another handheld device.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprise:

computer program instructions for creating speech identifying the content associated with the recorded speech message; and

computer program instructions for associating the speech with the recorded speech message for transmission with the recorded speech message.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the computer program instructions for extracting keywords from the text further comprise computer program instructions for extracting an explicit identification of the associated content from the text;

and

wherein the computer program instructions for searching of the content comprises computer program instructions for searching content under management for the identified content.

18. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the content under management comprises recorded messages from other senders and content of other types including one or more of emails, media files containing media content, spreadsheets, presentations, RSS (“

Really Simple Syndication”

) feeds and web pages.