DATA PROCESSING UNIT AND METHOD, IN PARTICULAR FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION REQUEST MESSAGES SENT OVER A TELEPHONE NETWORK

• US 20090111440A1
• Filed: 03/23/2007
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gaetano Rizzi
• Original Assignee: Gaetano Rizzi
• Inventors: Rizzi, Gaetano
• Application Number:
  US12/295,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20090111440A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.400
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

A data processing unit is described which comprises a reception module for receiving request messages sent by a user terminal over a telephone network, a decoder module, which communicates with said reception module and which is adapted to extract a text from a received request message, and a reply module for generating a reply message. The invention is characterized in that a reply message is generated which contains a text in at least one language defined on the basis of one or more features associated with said request message.

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28. A data processing unit comprising:

a reception module for receiving request messages sent by a user terminal over a telephone network;

a decoder module, in communication with said reception module, adapted to extract a telephone number of the user terminal; and

a reply module that generates a reply message containing a text in at least one language defined on the basis of said telephone number.

29. A data processing unit according to claim 28, wherein said language is defined on the basis of a country code.

30. A data processing unit according to claim 28, wherein said language is defined on the basis of digits of the telephone number that identify a telephone company.

31. A data processing unit according to claim 28, wherein said reply message contains a text including at least two portions, one of said portions being a linguistic translation of the other.

32. A data processing unit according to claim 31, further comprising a database containing at least one dictionary.

33. A data processing unit according to claim 32, further comprising a language selection module configured to identify a first dictionary based on an analysis of a telephone number extracted from the request message.

34. A data processing unit according to claim 33, wherein said decoder module extracts a text contained in the request message, wherein a language selection module is adapted to search said at least one dictionary for a word or an abbreviation contained in the text of said request message, and wherein said reply message is generated with a text written in at least one language defined on the basis of the results of said search.

35. A data processing unit according to claim 28, wherein said request message is an SMS or MMS type message or the like.

36. A data processing unit according to claim 28, wherein said reply module is configured to send a reply message to said user terminal over a telephone network, or said telephone network over which the corresponding request message was sent.

37. A data processing unit according to claim 28, wherein said decoder module is adapted to extract a text contained in the request message, and wherein the data processing unit further comprises a processing module communicating with said decoder module and with a database to search said database for information depending on the text of said request message.

38. A data processing unit comprising:

a reception module for receiving request messages sent by a user terminal over a telephone network;

a decoder module, in communication with said reception module, adapted to extract a telephone number of the user terminal; and

a reply module for generating a reply message containing a text in at least one language defined on the basis of a position of the user terminal.

39. A data processing method for telephone networks, wherein a user terminal sends an information request message to a data processing unit over a telephone network, and wherein said data processing unit carries out:

reception of said request message;

extraction of a telephone number of said user terminal from said request message; and

generation of a reply message with a text in at least one language defined on the basis of said telephone numbers.

40. A method according to claim 39, wherein said language is defined on the basis of a country code.

41. A method according to claim 39, wherein said language is defined on the basis of digits of the telephone number that identify a telephone company.

42. A method according to claim 39, wherein said reply message contains a text including at least two portions, one of said portions being a translation of the other.

43. A method according to claim 42, further comprising identifying a first dictionary based on an analysis of a telephone number extracted from a request message.

44. A method according to claim 43, further comprising searching on at least one dictionary for a word or an abbreviation contained in the text of said request message.

45. A method according to claim 44, wherein said reply message is generated with a text written in at least one language defined on the basis of the results of said search.

46. A method according to claim 39, wherein said request message is an SMS or MMS type message or the like.

47. A method according to claim 39, further comprising sending said reply message to said user terminal over a telephone network, or said telephone network over which the corresponding request message was sent.

48. A method according to claim 39, further comprising searching a database for information based on the text contained in said request message.

49. A method according to claim 39, further comprising detecting the position of the user terminal and generating said reply message with a text in at least one language defined on the basis of the position of the user terminal.

50. A data processing method for telephone networks, wherein a user terminal sends an information request message to a data processing unit over a telephone network, and wherein said data processing unit carries out:

reception of said request message;

extraction of a telephone number of said user terminal from said request message, and

generation of a reply message with a text in at least one language defined on the basis of a position of said user terminal.