Social network system

• US 9,343,066 B1
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Fields, Richard, Cronin, John E.
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, HUYEN X
• Application Number:
  US14/788,754
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 704 1- 10, 704/231, 704/235, 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/251, 704/255, 704/257
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/72 for transmitting results of analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

The present invention includes systems and methods for sending social media messages without the need for keyboard inputs. A microphone captures live audio speech data and transmits the audio data to a processing unit. The processing unit converts the audio to speech data. The processing unit also removes censored words, emphasizes key words, and edits that data to include product and promotional messages where appropriate. The processing unit then uses code words contained in the speech data to send the speech data to the appropriate social media outlets for output.

Claims

1. A method for sending social media messages, the method comprising:

receiving at a radio receiver audio speech data captured through one or more microphones, wherein each of the one or more microphones are worn by a participant in an event;

executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor;

processes the received audio speech data to convert the received audio speech data to text speech data, wherein the text speech data includes one or more words and is provided for input into a first database based on identity of the participant,

compares text speech data in the first database to one or more additional databases, wherein the one or more additional databases include;

one or more code words, and

one or more sponsored words provided, by one or more advertisers, for input into the one or more additional databases, wherein the one or more sponsored words include a company name and

modifies text speech data based on the comparison, wherein the one or more sponsored words are used to replace one or more text speech data words according to the one or more additional databases; and

sending the modified text speech data to a social media server for publication based on the comparison according to the one or more additional databases using one or more code words included in the text speech data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more sponsored words are used to replace one or more product words included in the text speech data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the text speech data is further modified by removing, from the text speech data, one or more censor words included in the one or more additional databases.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio speech data is received at captured through a microphone attached to a helmet.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the text speech data is further modified by excerpting the text speech data using one or more code words included in the text speech data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio speech data is received through a channel associated with the participant.

7. A system for sending social media messages, the system comprising:

a radio receiver that receives audio speech data captured through one or more microphones, wherein each of the one or more microphones are worn by a participant in an event;

a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor;

processes the received audio speech data to convert the received audio speech data to text speech data, wherein the text speech data includes one or more words and is provided for input into a first database based on identity of the participant,

the compares text speech data in the first database to one or more additional databases, wherein the one or more additional databases include;

one or more code words, and

one or more sponsored words provided, by one or more advertisers, for input into the one or more additional databases, wherein the one or more sponsored words include a company name, and

modifies text speech data based on the comparison, wherein the one or more sponsored words are used to replace one or more text speech data words according to the one or more additional databases; and

a communication interface that sends the modified text speech data to a social media server for publication based on the comparison, according to the one or more additional databases, using one or more code words included in the text speech data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more sponsored words are used to replace one or more product words included in the text speech data.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the text speech data is further modified by removing, from the text speech data, one or more censor words included in the one or more additional databases.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the audio speech data is captured through a microphone attached to a helmet.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the text speech data is further modified by excerpting the text speech data using one or more code words included in the text speech data.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the audio speech data is received through a channel associated with the participant.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for sending social media messages, the method comprising:

receiving audio speech data captured through one or more microphones, wherein each of the one or more microphones are worn by a participant in an event;

processing the received audio speech data to convert the received audio speech data to text speech data, wherein the text speech data includes one or more words and is provided for input into a first database based on identity of the participant;

comparing the text speech data in the first database to one or more additional databases, wherein the one or more additional databases include;

one or more code words, and

one or more sponsored words provided, by one or more advertisers, for input into the one or more additional databases, wherein the one or more sponsored words include a company name;

modifying text speech data based on the comparison, wherein the one or more sponsored words are used to replace one or more text speech data words according to the one or more additional databases; and

sending the modified text speech data to a social media server for publication based on the comparison, according to the one or more additional databases, using one or more code words included in the text speech data.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the one or more sponsored words are used to replace one or more product words included in the text speech data.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the text speech data is further modified by removing, from the text speech data, one or more censor words included in the one or more additional databases.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the text speech data is further modified by excerpting the text speech data using one or more code words included in the text speech data.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the audio speech data is received through a channel associated with the participant.