System and method for enhancing user experience during interactive audio visual communication

• US 9,912,809 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Pattan, Basavaraj Jayawant, Chitturi, Suresh, Selvaraj, Ashok Kumar, Oh, Gyubong, Lee, Kyung Tak
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Hemant
• Application Number:
  US14/832,267
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416, 370351-357, 379 671- 8828, 37920101, 709201-207, 709217-248
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/252 where a voice mode is enhanced with visual information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/253 where a visual mode is used instead of a voice mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

The embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for enabling Enhanced Visual Calls (EVC). The system includes an EVC client provided in a User Device to access network-based EVC functional components and device-based functional components to enable a user to request for EVC services, and an EVC server configured for authentication and processing of one or more EVC service requests received from the EVC client, accessing an EVC XML Document Management Server (XDMS) for retrieving a visual web content and an audio content related to the received one or more EVC service requests, synchronizing the visual web content with the audio content to provide the EVC client with a visual Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menu related to the audio content, and transmitting, to the EVC client, the visual IVR menu related to the one or more EVC service requests for displaying at the user device.

Claims

1. A method for enabling enhanced visual calls (EVC) by a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving user selection input;

transmitting, to an EVC server, a request message to retrieve mapping information corresponding to the user selection input from an EVC extensible markup language (XML) document management server (XDMS);

receiving, from the EVC server, the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input retrieved from the EVC XDMS;

receiving, from an external server, contents corresponding to the mapping information; and

correlating the contents with an interactive voice response (IVR) call.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein if the user selection input is a next menu selection, the request message requests a next menu page uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the user selection input, the mapping information comprises the next menu page URL, and the contents corresponds to the next menu page URL.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the user selection input is for a visual call request, the request message requests information of an IVR landing page link corresponding to the user selection input, the mapping information comprises the information of the IVR landing page link, and the contents corresponds to the information of the IVR landing page link.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, to the external server, information of a browsed content;

receiving information requesting enriched call with another EVC client in relation to the browsed content; and

transmitting, to the EVC server, the information of the enriched call.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises an EVC client.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the user selection input is via at least one of dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) input, voice input, or web input.

7. A terminal for enabling enhanced visual calls (EVC), the terminal comprising:

a transceiver; and

a controller configured to;

receive user selection input,

transmit, to an enabling enhanced visual calls (EVC) server, a request message to retrieve mapping information corresponding to the user selection input from an EVC extensible markup language (XML) document management server (XDMS),

receive, from the EVC server, the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input retrieved from the EVC XDMS,

receive, from an external server, contents corresponding to the mapping information, and

correlate the contents with an interactive voice response (IVR) call.

8. The terminal of claim 7, wherein, if the user selection input is a next menu selection, the request message requests a next menu page uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the user selection input, the mapping information comprises the next menu page URL, and the contents corresponds to the next menu page URL.

9. The terminal of claim 7, wherein, if the user selection input is for a visual call request, the request message requests information of an IVR landing page link corresponding to the user selection input, the mapping information comprises the information of the IVR landing page link, and the contents corresponds to the information of the IVR landing page link.

10. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to:

transmit, to the external server, information of a browsed content,

receive information requesting enriched call with another client in relation to the browsed content, and

transmit, to the EVC server, information of the enriched call.

11. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the terminal comprises an EVC client.

12. The terminal of claim 8,

wherein the user selection input is via at least one of DTMF input, voice input, or web input.

13. A method for enabling enhanced visual calls (EVC) by an EVC server, the method comprising:

receiving, from an EVC client, a first request message to retrieve mapping information corresponding to user selection input from an EVC extensible markup language (XML) document management server (XDMS);

transmitting, to the EVC XDMS, a second request message requesting the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input;

receiving, from the EVC XMDS, the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input; and

transmitting, to the EVC client, the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input,

wherein the mapping information configures the EVC client to receive contents corresponding to the mapping information from an external server.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein, if the user selection input is a next menu selection, the first request message requests a next menu page uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the user selection input, and the mapping information comprises the next menu page URL.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein, if the user selection input is for a visual call request, the first request message requests information of an IVR landing page link corresponding to the user selection input, and the mapping information comprises the information of the IVR landing page link.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, from the EVC client, information of an enriched call with another EVC client in relation to a browsed content; and

transmitting, to the another EVC client, the information of the enriched call.

17. An enabling enhanced visual calls (EVC) server for enabling EVC, the EVC server comprising:

a transceiver; and

a controller configured to;

receive, from an EVC client, a first request message to retrieve mapping information corresponding to user selection input from an EVC extensible markup language (XML) document management server (XDMS),

transmit, to the EVC XDMS, a second request message requesting the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input,

receive, from the EVC XMDS, the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input, and

transmit, to the EVC client, the mapping information corresponding to the user selection input,

wherein the mapping information configure the EVC client to receive contents corresponding to the mapping information from an external server.

18. The EVC server of claim 17, wherein, if the user selection input is a next menu selection, the first request message requests a next menu page uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the user selection input, and the mapping information comprises the next menu page URL.

19. The EVC server of claim 17, wherein, if the user selection input is for a visual call request, the first request message requests information of an IVR landing page link corresponding to the user selection input, and the mapping information comprises the information of the IVR landing page link.

20. The EVC server of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to:

receive, from the EVC client, information of an enriched call with another EVC client in relation to a browsed content, and

transmit, to the another EVC client, the information of the enriched call.