Shareable applications on telecommunications devices

• US 9,986,045 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2015
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Wang, Winston, Holt, Adam, Bouthemy, Jean-Luc, Kemery, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Simon
• Application Number:
  US14/741,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,077 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

During voice communication between multiple telecommunications devices, a shareable application facilitates concurrent sharing of data and processes between the devices. The application may be configured to monitor the voice communication and execute a predetermined function upon detecting a predetermined condition in the voice communication. The application may further facilitate sharing of functionality and user interface displays during the voice communication. In some implementations, a server computing device on a communications network may facilitate functions of shareable applications on one or more telecommunications devices.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

placing a server computing device on a network in communication with shareable applications running on a first telecommunications device and a second telecommunications device during a voice call established between the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device;

receiving, by the server computing device, during the voice call between the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device, a request from one of the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device or the second telecommunications device to present data stored on the network through the shareable applications running on both the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device;

accessing, by the server computing device, the data stored on the network in response to the request;

providing the data from the server computing device to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device during the voice call in response to the request; and

providing instructions from the server computing device to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to present the data during the voice call.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data is a series of images, the method further comprising:

providing images from the series of images sequentially to the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device, wherein each image is provided by the server computing device in response to a command received at the server computing device from one of the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device or the second telecommunications device to view a next image in the series.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data is media content, the method further comprising:

tracking the media content provided by the server computing device to the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device; and

charging a first user of the first telecommunications device for the media content provided to the shareable application running on the first telecommunications device and charging a second user of the second telecommunications device for the media content provided to the shareable application running on the second telecommunications device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data includes sound files, the method further comprising:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device by the server computing device,

wherein providing instructions from the server computing device comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to overlay a sound from the sound files on the conversation in response to a detected condition in the voice call.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data includes images, the method further comprising:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device by the server computing device,

wherein providing instructions from the server computing device comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to display one or more of the images in response to a detected condition in the conversation.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device by the server computing device,

wherein providing instructions from the server computing device comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to execute a predetermined function in response to detecting a predetermined condition in the conversation between the first user of the first telecommunications device and the second user of the second telecommunications device.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device by the server computing device;

in response to recognizing words in the voice call as being in a first language, translating the words from a language to a second language at the server computing device; and

generating translated audio from the translated words at the server computing device using automated speech generation,

wherein providing the data from the server computing device comprises providing the translated audio to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device during the voice call.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon programming instructions which, when executed by a server computing device on a network cause the server computing device to perform operations comprising:

placing the server computing device in communication with shareable applications running on a first telecommunications device and a second telecommunications device during a voice call established between the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device;

receiving, during the voice call between the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device, a request from one of the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device or the second telecommunications device to present data stored on the network through the shareable applications running on both the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device;

accessing the data stored on the network in response to the request;

providing the data to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device during the voice call in response to the request; and

providing instructions to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to present the data during the voice call.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the data is a series of images and the operations further comprise:

providing images from the series of images sequentially to the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device, wherein each image is provided in response to a command received from one of the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device or the second telecommunications device to view a next image in the series.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the data is media content and the operations further comprise:

tracking the media content provided to the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device; and

charging a first user of the first telecommunications device for the media content provided to the shareable application running on the first telecommunications device and charging a second user of the second telecommunications device for the media content provided to the shareable application running on the second telecommunications device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the data includes sound files and the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device,

wherein providing instructions comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to overlay sound from the sound files on the conversation in response to a detected condition in the voice call.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the data includes images and the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device,

wherein providing instructions comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to display one or more of the images in response to a detected condition in the conversation.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device,

wherein providing instructions comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to execute a predetermined function in response to detecting a predetermined condition in the conversation between the first user of the first telecommunications device and the second user of the second telecommunications device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device;

in response to recognizing words in the voice call as being in a first language, translating the words from a language to a second language; and

generating translated audio from the translated words using automated speech generation,

wherein providing the data comprises providing the translated audio to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device during the voice call.

15. A server computing device comprising:

a processor;

a memory device coupled to the processor; and

computer-executable instructions stored in the memory device and configured to program the server computing device to perform operations comprising;

placing the server computing device in communication with shareable applications running on a first telecommunications device and a second telecommunications device during a voice call established between the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device;

receiving, during the voice call between the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device, a request from one of the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device or the second telecommunications device to present data stored on the network through the shareable applications running on both the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device;

accessing the data stored on the network in response to the request;

providing the data to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device during the voice call in response to the request; and

providing instructions to the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to present the data during the voice call.

16. The server computing device according to claim 15, wherein the data is a series of images and the operations further comprise:

providing images from the series of images sequentially to the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device, wherein each image is provided in response to a command received from one of the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device or the second telecommunications device to view a next image in the series.

17. The server computing device according to claim 15, wherein the data is media content downloaded to the first and second telecommunications devices and the operations further comprise:

tracking the media content provided to the shareable applications running on the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device; and

charging a first user of the first telecommunications device for the media content provided to the shareable application running on the first telecommunications device and charging a second user of the second telecommunications device for the media content provided to the shareable application running on the second telecommunications device.

18. The server computing device according to claim 15, wherein the data includes sound files and the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device,

wherein providing instructions comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to overlay a sound from the sound files on the conversation in response to a detected condition in the voice call.

19. The server computing device according to claim 15, wherein the data includes images and the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device,

wherein providing instructions comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to display one or more of the images in response to a detected condition in the conversation.

20. The server computing device according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

monitoring a conversation between a first user of the first telecommunications device and a second user of the second telecommunications device,

wherein providing instructions comprises instructing the shareable applications running on each of the first telecommunications device and the second telecommunications device to execute a predetermined function in response to detecting a predetermined condition in the conversation between the first user of the first telecommunications device and the second user of the second telecommunications device.