Voice instant messaging system

• US 20050043951A1
• Filed: 07/07/2003
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eugene Terry Schurter
• Original Assignee: Eugene Terry Schurter
• Inventors: Schurter, Eugene Terry
• Application Number:
  US10/616,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20050043951A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.100
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/39 using speech synthesis speech synthesis per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/257 remote control of substation user interface for telephonic services, e.g. by ISDN stimulus, ADSI, wireless telephony application WTA, MExE or BREW
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42374 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for extending instant messaging applications to telephony devices using voice recording, voice streaming, voice recognition and voice synthesis with the steps of: generating the speech synthesis of text messages, voice recognition for the performance of Instant Messaging functions, such as selecting a “buddy”, changing status, sending a message, listening to a message, a mechanism for the recording and delivery of voice as part of an instant message that is part of an Instant Messaging system to Instant Messaging clients on electronic text messaging capable devices and telephony devices over networked systems such as the Internet, wireless networks, cellular networks, radio networks, and wireline networks.

Claims

1. A system and method for extending instant messaging applications to telephony devices using voice recording, voice streaming, voice recognition and voice synthesis comprising the steps of:

generating the speech synthesis of text messages;

voice recognition for the performance of Instant Messaging functions, such as selecting a “

buddy”

, changing status, sending a message, listening to a message;

a mechanism for the recording and delivery of voice as part of an instant message that is part of an Instant Messaging system to Instant Messaging clients on electronic text messaging capable devices and telephony devices over networked systems such as the Internet, wireless networks, cellular networks, radio networks, and wireline networks.

2. A system and method as described in 1, wherein such system and method is applicable to Instant Messaging systems such as Microsoft Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and AOL Messenger.

3. A system and method as described in 1, wherein such system and method further comprises:

(a) the conversion of graphical emotion elements (Emoticons) to emotion sounds (Emotisounds);

(b) the conversion of Instant Messaging shorthand to their respective, phonetic equivelant;

(c) and the translation of Instant Messaging shorthand to their respective, longhand equivelant;

(d) the selection of voice libraries to customize the speech synthesis ouput;

(e) the playing, streaming, and replaying of a voice message as a sound file on an electronic text messaging capable device or telephony device;

(f) and the playing, streaming and replaying of a voice message as sound on an electronic text messaging capable device or telephony device.

4. A system and method as described in 2, wherein such system and method further comprises:

(a) the use of one or more existing Instant Messenger service(s) account(s);

(b) the use of one of more newly created Instant Messenger service(s) account(s);

(c) and the function of action as a client to one or more existing Instant Messenger service(s).

5. A system and method as described in 1, wherein such system and method further comprises;

(a) support of an individual Instant Messaging session as telephony device to electronic text messaging device and as telephony device to telephony device;

(b) and multiple, simultaneous Instant Messaging sessions of both telephony device to electronic text messaging device and telephony device to telephony device without limitation to number of sessions or type of sessions.