Mobile communication device including text-to-speech module, a touch sensitive screen, and customizable tiles displayed thereon

• US 9,305,542 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2013
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stripe, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Inventors: Verna, Anthony, Ortiz, Luis M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lerner, Martin
• Application Number:
  US14/049,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20140088969A1
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: 704/8, 704/258, 704/260, 704/270, 704/270.1, 715/744, 715/747, 715/792
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 the application module can be configured in association with the mobile communication device in order to automatically vocalize the 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 information. The 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. The information can be obtained in real-time. Such an approach automatically and instantly pushes a vocal alert with respect to the user-selected 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 information on mobile communication devices from active tiles displayed on the mobile devices and selected by users, comprising:

providing a first mobile communication device including data network communications hardware and a. touch-sensitive display screen and associating a customized live tile application module with said first mobile communication device to enable a user of said first mobile communication device to selectively provide information preselected by the user for rendering as images in a live tile rendering on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, wherein said live tile comprises a tile space at least as large as a double tile on said touch-sensitive display screen when rendering together with other tiles, and speech in at least one language pre-selected by the user to a speaker integrated in or wirelessly associated with the first mobile communication device while the live tile continues to be rendered on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, and also providing information for selective rendering as at least one more of;

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 information for rendering from said first mobile communication device by selection of a tile with images of interest to a user and being displayed therein thus enabling the user to thereby expand a selected application associated with the selected tile and thereafter enable the retrieving of data associated with said tile information from a remote server; and

selectively providing at least one of said tile information and said data associated with said tile information for rendering by the selected application as at least one of images on said touch-sensitive display screen and speech to a speaker also integrated in the first mobile communication device, and also for providing information for rendering at least one more of;

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 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 information thereby permitting said user to continue multitasking.

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

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying said real time information on a single tile enlarged to occupy the same space of at least two tiles on the flat panel display of said mobile communication device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating information form a plurality of tiles to a parent application so that said 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 at least one of:

sports information, location-based services, weather, driving directions, local information, travel, stock information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said customized live tile application renders as a single the occupying the space of at least two tiles on a second screen associated with a mobile device.

10. The method for obtaining user-selected 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 information.

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

providing a first mobile communication device including data network communications hardware and a touch-sensitive display screen and associating a customized live tile application module with said first mobile communication device to enable a user of said first mobile communication device to selectively provide information preselected by the user for rendering as images in a live tile rendering on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, said live tile comprising a space at least as large as an area represented by two tiles with other tiles rendering on the touch-sensitive display screen, and speech in at least one language pre-selected by the user and rendered on at least one of a speaker integrated in or coupled to the first mobile communication device while the live tile continues to be rendered on the touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, or speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device while the tile continues to be rendered on the touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, and said live tile module also providing information for rendering at least one more of;

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 the application module to automatically vocalize said preselected information in a language selected by the user;

obtaining said information for rendering from said first mobile communication device by selection of a tile with images of interest to a user and being displayed therein thus enabling the user to thereby expand a selected application associated with the selected tile and thereafter enable the retrieving of data associated with said tile information from a remote server associated with information preselected by the user and enabling the mobile communication device to at least one of display said information or announce said information after a text to speech conversion process without opening said tile on the touch-sensitive display screen included with said if said the is pre-selected on said mobile communication device for rendering; and

selectively providing at least one of said tile information and said data associated with said tile information for further rendering as at least one of;

images on an entirety of said touch-sensitive display screen;

speech to a speaker also 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 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 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 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 programming a mobile device to obtain user-selected 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 information.

18. A mobile communications system configured to obtain user-selected information associated with tiles displayed on mobile communication devices, comprising:

data network communications hardware included with the first mobile communication device, a touch-sensitive display screen, and a customized live tile application module provided to enable users of said first mobile communication device to selectively vocalize and display information preselected by a user based on images rendering in a live tile on said touch-sensitive display screen, said live tile space being at least as large as a double tile, wherein speech can be announced in at least one language pre-selected from more than one language option selectable by the user to a speaker integrated in the mobile communication device and information can be displayed as images on the touch-sensitive display, said mobile communication device further configured by the customized live tile application module to perform at least one of;

vocalize information preselected by a user to a speaker wirelessly associated with the first mobile communication device, display the information preselected by a user on a flat panel display wirelessly connected to the mobile communication device, display images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, and vocalize information as speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device; and

a text-to-speech application module associated with said customized live tile application module to automatically vocalize said preselected information in a language selected from more than one language by the user.

19. The mobile device of claim 18, wherein 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 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 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 information in the form of speech or as displayed images based on hardware selected for rendering of the sports game information.