Mobile devices, methods, and computer program products for enhancing social interactions with relevant social networking information

• US 9,396,729 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2015
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pratt, James, Sullivan, Marc, Belz, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): He, Jialong
• Application Number:
  US14/728,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20150262582A1
• Time in Patent Office: 413 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G10L 17/02 Preprocessing operations, e.g. segment selection; Pattern representation or modelling, e.g. based on linear discriminant analysis [LDA] or principal components; Feature selection or extraction
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/06 Decision making techniques; Pattern matching strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/24 the user being prompted to utter a password or a predefined phrase
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Devices, methods, and computer program products are for facilitating enhanced social interactions using a mobile device. A method for facilitating an enhanced social interaction using a mobile device includes receiving an audio input at the mobile device, determining a salient portion of the audio input, receiving relevant information associated with the salient portion, and presenting the relevant information via the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method operating a first communication mobile device to facilitate a social interaction, the first communication mobile device comprising an input/output interface, a processor, a communications component, a user interface, and a display, the input/output interface of the first communication mobile device communicating with a wearable audio input device worn by a first user of the first communication mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the input/output interface of the first communication mobile device, from the wearable audio input device, an audio input of an in-person conversation between the first user and a second user, wherein the audio input comprises audio of the second user engaged in the in-person conversation with the first user;

identifying an identity of the second user;

determining, by the processor, a salient portion of the audio input, wherein determining the salient portion of the audio input comprises matching the audio input against a set of established keywords;

receiving, by the communications component, relevant information associated with the identity of the second user based on the salient portion of the audio input; and

displaying, by the display, the relevant information to the first user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the set of established keywords.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the set of established keywords is based at least in part on a preference of the first user.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the set of established keywords is based at least in part on a feature of a social networking profile associated with the first user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the identity of the second user comprises receiving identity information, via short-range communication, from a second mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the identity of the second user comprises:

receiving, by the communications component, a voice print of the second user; and

comparing, by the processor, the voice print with the audio input.

7. A mobile communication device, for facilitating a social interaction, the mobile communication device comprising:

an input/output interface for receiving, from a wearable audio input device worn by a first user of the mobile communication device, an audio input of an in-person conversation between the first user and a second user, wherein the audio input comprises audio of the second user engaged in the in-person conversation with the first user;

a user interface;

a processor for

identifying an identity of the second user based at least in part on the audio input, and

determining a salient portion of the audio input by matching the audio input against a set of established keywords;

a communications component for receiving relevant information associated with the identity of the second user based on the salient portion of the audio input; and

a display for displaying the relevant information to the first user.

8. The mobile communication device of claim 7, wherein the communications component further receives the set of established keywords.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the set of established keywords is based at least in part on a preference of the first user.

10. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the set of established keywords is based at least in part on a social networking profile associated with the first user.

11. The mobile communication device of claim 7, wherein identifying the identity of the second user comprises receiving identity information, via short-range communication, from a second mobile device.

12. The mobile communication device of claim 7, wherein identifying the identity of the second user comprises:

receiving, by the communications component, a voice print of the second user; and

comparing the voice print with the audio input.