Unified notification and response system

• US 9,693,207 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2015
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Moguillansky, Jeff
• Primary Examiner(s): Boutah, Alina N
• Application Number:
  US14/632,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20160255480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 709223, 709206, 709207
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/16 Multipoint routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A unified notification system in which notifications for all of a user'"'"'s devices and services appear in windows of all of the user'"'"'s devices. Notifications related to the user'"'"'s social network friends and public users that the user subscribes to may also appear in the windows of all devices. Events from the user'"'"'s devices and accounts are sent to a server for aggregation and provisioning back to the user'"'"'s devices. To this end, a HTTP API may query the server to receive the user'"'"'s notifications. Notifications that include content can also include metadata. The user can respond to any notification from any device.

Claims

1. System comprising:

at least one server;

at least one non-transitory computer memory with instructions executable by at least one wireless communication device (WCD) associated with a user to configure the WCD to;

receive a voice message from an originator device;

send a signal representing the voice message to the server;

at least one computerized appliance that is not the server, the originator device, or the WCD;

the server being programmed with instructions to propagate signals representing the voice message to the at least one computerized appliance for presentation of a message on the computerized appliance along with an audio and/or textual representation of the voice message;

the computerized appliance being programmed with instructions to present on at least one user interface (UI) including at least a first selector selectable to link the computerized appliance to an audio of the voice message and at least a second selector selectable to cause the computerized appliance to send audio for a call back to the originator device of the voice message.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computerized appliance is programmed to accesses instructions for receiving notifications from plural apparatuses correlated by the server to be associated with the computerized appliance, and presenting the notifications on a display of the computerized appliance.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computerized appliance is programmed to accesses instructions for presenting on a display notifications of friends of a user of the computer appliance.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the computerized appliance is programmed to accesses instructions for presenting on a display notifications of public users that the user subscribes to.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the computerized appliance is programmed to accesses instructions for sending to the server signals representing notifications received by the computerized appliance, for provisioning of the notifications to apparatuses correlated by the server to the computerized appliance.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the computerized appliance is programmed to accesses instructions for executing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) application programming interface (API) to query the server to receive notifications from apparatuses correlated by the server to the computerized appliance.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the notification includes content and metadata about the content.

8. System comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer memory with instructions executable by at least one wireless communication device (WCD) associated with a user to configure the WCD to;

record a voice message from a calling device;

send the voice message to a server for transcribing the voice message into an alpha-numeric transcription thereof for presentation of the transcription to an appliance associated at the server with the WCD, the appliance being separate from the WCD; and

receive voice data signals from the appliance and send the voice data signals to the originating device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the instructions configure the WCD to communicate with a server to receive the voice data signals from the appliance.

10. The system of claim 8, comprising the appliance, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to present on a display associated with the appliance a notification of the voice message.

11. The system of claim 10, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to present on the display a link to a data encoding of the voice message, the link being selectable to cause the appliance to play the voice message on at least one speaker associated with the appliance.

12. The system of claim 10, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to receive from a microphone a voice response, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to send the voice response to the server for provisioning of the voice response to the WCD.

13. The system of claim 10, further comprising the server.

14. A system, comprising:

at least one server configured to receive at least one message from an originator device addressed to a recipient device;

the server comprising at least one processor accessing instructions executable by the processor for;

accessing a data structure associating an identity of the user with at least one computerized appliance associated with a user of the recipient device, the computerized appliance not being the originator device, the server, or the recipient device;

sending the message to the computerized appliance along with an identification of the recipient device as being the recipient of the message;

receiving from the computerized appliance a response; and

executing an action responsive to the response.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the action includes sending a notification based on the message to public safety personnel of an event and a physical address to which the message pertains.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the action includes sending a command to an alarm to activate.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the computerized appliance is a device associated with a friend of the user.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the instructions are executable to send the message to all of plural devices.