Methods and systems for managing telecommunications

• US 9,491,297 B1
• Filed: 08/30/2013
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CallWave Communications, LLC
• Original Assignee: CallWave Communications, LLC
• Inventors: Kirchhoff, Leland W., Trandal, David S., Hofstatter, David F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Van D
• Application Number:
  US14/014,855
• Time in Patent Office: 1,166 Days
• Field of Search: 379/88.13, 379/88.14, 455/412.1, 704/235
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2038 Call context notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/252 where a voice mode is enhanced with visual information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/558 Databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53333 Message receiving aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53358 Message preview

Abstract

Methods and systems for call processing are described. A call from a caller intended for a first party is received at a call processing system, which stores call signaling information associated with the call. A greeting is played to the caller, and a voice communication is received and recorded. At least a first portion of the voice communication is transmitted in substantially real time to a terminal associated with the first person. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text and the text is stored and transmitted to a terminal associated with the first party. When a search query is received from the first party, the system searches the data store to determine if there is matching call having related matching call information. If there is a matching call, related information may be provided to the first party.

Claims

1. A method of processing a call comprising:

receiving at a call processing system a call from a caller intended for a user of the call processing system, wherein the call processing system comprises processing hardware and is configured to perform textual transcription of voice communications;

accessing a time period value from computer readable memory;

determining how much of the caller voice communication to convert based at least in part on the time period value;

converting, by the call processing system, a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text, wherein the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call is an initial portion of the call;

identifying, by the call processing system, a subset of words in the voice communication text;

making accessible, over a network, to the user of the call processing system to whom the call was intended, the identified subset of words of the voice communication text; and

analyzing, by the call processing system, at least the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication, and promoting one or more services to the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, based at least in part on the analysis of the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, the method further comprising enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search the subset of words of the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, the method further comprising:

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search the subset of words of the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system via a search query;

obtaining search results, corresponding to the search query from the user of the call processing system, wherein the search results include at least a portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text; and

enabling the search results, including at least the portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text, to be provided for display to the user of the call processing system.

4. The method as defined in claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the call processing system, call signaling information associated with the call;

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search the subset of words of the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system via a search query;

obtaining search results corresponding to the search query from the user of the call processing system, wherein the search results include at least a portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text,

enabling the search results, including at least the portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text, to be provided for display to the user of the call processing system; and

enabling at least a portion of the call signaling information associated with the call to be provided for display to the user of the call processing system in association with the search results.

5. A method of processing a call comprising:

receiving at a call processing system a call from a caller intended for a user of the call processing system, wherein the call processing system comprises processing hardware and is configured to perform textual transcription of voice communications;

accessing a lead-in-text count from computer readable memory;

converting, by the call processing system, a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text, wherein the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call is an initial portion of the call and converting a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text comprises converting the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication into a first quantity of text wherein the first quantity is not to exceed a second quantity, wherein the second quantity is based at least in part on the lead-in-text count;

identifying, by the call processing system, a subset of words in the voice communication text;

making accessible, over a network, to the user of the call processing system to whom the call was intended, the identified subset of words of the voice communication text; and

analyzing, by the call processing system, at least the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication, and promoting one or more services to the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, based at least in part on the analysis of the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication.

6. A method of processing a call comprising:

receiving at a call processing system, wherein the call processing system comprises processing hardware and is configured to perform textual transcription of voice communications, a call from a caller intended for a user of the call processing system;

accessing a time period value from computer readable memory;

converting, by the call processing system, a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text, wherein the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call is an initial portion of the call and converting a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text comprises converting, by the call processing system, the portion, having a first time length, of the caller'"'"'s voice communication into text wherein the first time length does not exceed a second time length, wherein the second time length is based at least in part on the time period value;

identifying, by the call processing system, a subset of words in the voice communication text; and

analyzing, by the call processing system, at least the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication, and promoting to the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, one or more services based at least in part on the analyses of the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication text.

7. The method as defined in claim 6, the method further comprising enabling the user of the call processing system to search the subset of words of the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system.

8. The method as defined in claim 6, the method further comprising:

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search the subset of words of the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system via a search query;

obtaining search results, corresponding to the search query from the user of the call processing system, wherein the search results include at least a portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text; and

enabling the search results, including at least the portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text, to be provided for display to the user of the call processing system.

9. The method as defined in claim 6, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the call processing system, call signaling information associated with the call;

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search the subset of words of the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system via a search query;

obtaining search results corresponding to the search query from the user of the call processing system, wherein the search results include at least a portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text,

enabling the search results, including at least the portion of the subset of words in the voice communication text, to be provided for display to the user of the call processing system; and

enabling at least a portion of the call signaling information associated with the call to be provided for display to the user of the call processing system in association with the search results.

10. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication comprises the caller'"'"'s entire voice communication of the call.

11. The method as defined in claim 6, the method further comprising enabling the user of the call processing system to:

assign a name in a contact record associated with the caller, or

edit a name in a contact record associated with the caller, or

assign and edit a name in a contact record associated with the caller.

12. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the identification, by the call processing system, of the subset of words of voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords.

13. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein the one or more keywords include activity words.

14. The method as defined in claim 6, the method further comprising enhancing search performance at least in part by indexing the identified subset of words of voice communication text.

15. A method of processing a call comprising:

receiving at a call processing system, wherein the call processing system comprises processing hardware and is configured to perform textual transcription of voice communications, a call from a caller intended for a user of the call processing system;

accessing a lead-in-text count from computer readable memory; and

converting, by the call processing system, a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text, wherein the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call is an initial portion of the call and converting a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into voice communication text comprises converting, by the call processing system, the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication into a first quantity of text wherein the first quantity is not to exceed a second quantity, wherein the second quantity is based at least in part on the lead-in-text count;

identifying, by the call processing system, a subset of words in the voice communication text; and

analyzing, by the call processing system, at least the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication, and promoting to the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, one or more services based at least in part on the analyses of the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication text.

16. A system comprising:

at least one computer processor; and

non-transitory memory, which is operably connected to the at least one computer processor, and embodied with a computer program comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a call from a caller intended for a user of the call processing system;

accessing a time period value from computer readable memory;

determining how much of the caller voice communication to convert based at least in part on the time period value;

converting a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into a voice communication text, wherein the portion of the caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call is an initial portion of the call;

identifying a subset of words in the voice communication text; and

analyzing, by the call processing system, at least the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication, and

promoting to the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, one or more services based at least in part on the analysis of the content of the identified subset of words of the caller voice communication text.