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

• US 9,564,133 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2016
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• 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:
  US15/212,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20160329055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 204 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 for facilitating enhanced social interactions using a mobile device are disclosed. 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 first mobile communications device comprising:

a communications transceiver;

a processor; and

a memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising

receiving, via the communications transceiver, information from a second mobile communications device, wherein the first mobile communications device is associated with a first user,

identifying an identity of a second user associated with the second mobile communications device based on the information received from the second mobile communications device,

receiving an audio input associated with the second user, wherein the audio input associated with the second user comprises voice audio of the second user engaged in a conversation with a third user;

determining a keyword from the audio input associated with the second user,

checking, using the identity of the second user, a privacy setting associated with the second user, wherein, based on a first result of checking the privacy setting associated with the second user, the first mobile communications device is denied access to social networking information associated with the second user, and

in response to a second result of checking the privacy setting associated with the second user, determining, from the social networking information associated with the second user, relevant information associated the second user based, at least in part, on the keyword from the audio input associated with the second user.

2. The first mobile communications device of claim 1, wherein the communications transceiver comprises a near-field communication module.

3. The first mobile communications device of claim 1, wherein the communications transceiver comprises a short-range radio module.

4. The first mobile communications device of claim 1, wherein the first mobile communications device further comprises a microphone, and wherein the voice audio of the second user engaged in the conversation with the third user is captured by the microphone of the first mobile communications device.

5. The first mobile communications device of claim 1, wherein the voice audio of the second user engaged in the conversation with the third user is captured by a wearable microphone in communication with the first mobile communications device.

6. The first mobile communications device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise displaying, by a display of the first mobile communications device, the relevant information associated with the second user.

7. The first mobile communications device of claim 1, wherein the keyword from the audio input associated with the second user is determined based at least in part on a preference of the first user of the first mobile communications device.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that, when executed by a processor of a first mobile communications device, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, via a communications transceiver of the first mobile communications device, information from a second mobile communications device, wherein the first mobile communications device is associated with a first user;

identifying an identity of a second user associated with the second mobile communications device based on the information received from the second mobile communications device;

receiving an audio input associated with the second user, wherein the audio input associated with the second user comprises voice audio of the second user engaged in a conversation with a third user;

determining a keyword from the audio input associated with the second user;

checking, using the identity of the second user, a privacy setting associated with the second user, wherein, based on a first result of checking the privacy setting associated with the second user, the first mobile communications device is denied access to social networking information associated with the second user; and

in response to a second result of checking the privacy setting associated with the second user, determining, from the social networking information associated with the second user, relevant information associated the second user based, at least in part, on the keyword from the audio input associated with the second user.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the communications transceiver comprises a near-field communication module.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the communications transceiver comprises a short-range radio module.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the voice audio of the second user engaged in the conversation with the third user is captured by a microphone of the first mobile communications device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the voice audio of the second user engaged in the conversation with the third user is captured by a wearable microphone in communication with the first mobile communications device.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise displaying, by a display of the first mobile communications device, the relevant information associated with the second user.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the keyword from the audio input associated with the second user is determined based at least in part on a preference of the first user of the first mobile communications device.