Methods and systems for managing communications

• US 9,838,542 B1
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• 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:
  US15/299,342
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 379 8814, 37911413
• 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
• 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
• 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 call processing 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 call processing system to perform operations comprising;

receiving a call over a network from a caller directed to a first user device of a user of the call processing system;

converting at least a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into a voice communication text;

identifying a subset of words in the voice communication text;

analyzing at least the content of the identified subset of words of the voice communication text; and

promoting to the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, one or more products, services, or products and services via a displayed user interface of an application on a second user device distinct from the first user device to which the received call was directed, based at least in part on the analysis of the content of the identified subset of words of the caller'"'"'s voice communication text.

2. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, the call processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the call processing system.

3. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, the call processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search 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 voice communication text; and

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

4. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, the call processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving call signaling information associated with the received call;

enabling the user of the call processing system, to whom the call was intended, to search 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 voice communication text,

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

5. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, wherein converting at least a portion of a caller'"'"'s voice communication associated with the call into a voice communication text comprises converting the entire caller'"'"'s voice communication into voice communication text.

6. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, the call processing system further configured to perform operations 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.

7. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, wherein the identification of the subset of words of the voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords.

8. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, wherein the identification of the subset of words of the voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords and the one or more keywords include activity words.

9. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, the call processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enhancing search performance at least in part by indexing the identified subset of words of voice communication text.

10. The call processing system as defined in claim 1, the call processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

storing the caller'"'"'s voice communication in a first storage archive; and

subsequent to the storing of the caller'"'"'s voice communication in a storage archive, storing the caller'"'"'s voice communication in a long term storage archive.

11. A communications processing 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 communications processing system to perform operations comprising;

recording, during a call originally directed to a first device, an audio message from a calling party intended for a user of the communications processing system;

converting at least a portion of the recorded audio message into a voice communication text;

identifying a subset of words in the voice communication text;

analyzing at least the content of the identified subset of words of the voice communication text; and

promoting to the user of the communications processing system, to whom the audio message was intended, one or more products, services, or products and services via a displayed user interface of an application on a second user device, the second user device distinct from the first user device to which the call from the calling party was originally directed, based at least in part on the analysis of the content of the identified subset of words of the party'"'"'s voice communication text.

12. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, the communications processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enabling the user of the communications processing system, to whom the recorded audio message was intended, to search the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the communications processing system.

13. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, the communications processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enabling the user of the communications processing system, to whom the recorded audio message was intended, to search the voice communication text for one or more search terms specified by the user of the communications processing system via a search query;

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

enabling the search results, including at least the portion of the voice communication text, to be provided to a user device for display to the user of the communications processing system.

14. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, wherein converting at least a portion of the recorded audio message into a voice communication text comprises converting the entire recorded audio message into a voice communication text.

15. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, the communications processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enabling the user of the communications processing system to;

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

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

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

16. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, wherein the identification of the subset of words of the voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords.

17. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, wherein the identification of the subset of words of the voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords and the one or more keywords include activity words.

18. The communications processing system as defined in claim 11, the communications processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

enhancing search performance at least in part by indexing the identified subset of words of voice communication text.

19. A communications processing 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 communications processing system to perform operations comprising;

receiving an audio recording from a calling party intended for a user of the communications processing system;

converting at least a portion of the received party'"'"'s audio recording into a voice communication text;

identifying a subset of words in the voice communication text;

analyzing at least the content of the identified subset of words of the voice communication text; and

promoting to the user of the communications processing system, to whom the received audio recording was intended, one or more products, services, or products and services via a displayed user interface of an application on a second user device, the second user device distinct from a first user device to which the audio recording was directed, based at least in part on the analysis of the content of the identified subset of words of the party'"'"'s voice communication text.

20. The communications processing system as defined in claim 19, the communications processing system further configured to perform operations comprising:

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

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

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

21. The communications processing system as defined in claim 19, converting at least a portion of the received party'"'"'s audio recording into a voice communication text comprises converting the entire received party'"'"'s audio recording into voice communication text.

22. The communications processing system as defined in claim 19, wherein the identification of the subset of words of the voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords.

23. The communications processing system as defined in claim 19, wherein the identification of the subset of words of the voice communication text is based at least in part on one or more keywords and the one or more keywords include activity words.