Wireless system for social media management

• US 9,711,146 B1
• Filed: 06/04/2015
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre-Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shin, Seong Ah A
• Application Number:
  US14/731,384
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 704226, 704257, 704235, 704231, 379 8801
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A user may speak an audio input into a microphone of a recorder device (e.g., a sport helmet). The user device then transmits the audio input to a receiver. The receiver, upon receiving the audio input, routes the audio to a processor that processes the audio input to detect a spoken activation code. The processor then parses a subset of the audio input (e.g., the subset including one or more words) following the activation code and generates textual data based the parsed audio subset. The textual data may optionally be edited to replace one or more pre-identified catchphrases (e.g., swearwords or product names) with replacement phrases (e.g., swear censors) or hyperlinks (e.g., leading to product websites). The textual data is then transmitted to reader devices via transmitters, which may optionally transmit the textual data to a selective group of reader devices (e.g., stadium attendees).

Claims

1. A method for publishing text based on recorded audio, the method comprising:

receiving a wirelessly transmitted audio signal at a wireless signal receiver, the wirelessly transmitted audio signal conveying audio recorded by a microphone of a recorder device, the recorder device being a sport equipment object; and

executing instructions stored in memory, wherein the execution of instructions by a processor;

processes the audio input to detect a spoken activation code,

parses a subset of the audio input following the detected spoken activation code using a speech recognition module, the subset including a plurality of words,

generates textual data based on the plurality of words parsed by the speech recognition system,

modifies the textual data by replacing a catchphrase within the textual data with a replacement phrase associated with a product and by generating a hyperlink within the textual data, the hyperlink corresponding to the replacement phrase and leading to a website associated with the product,

generates encrypted textual data by encrypting the textual data, and

transmits the encrypted textual data to a plurality of reader devices via a wireless transmitter, wherein the plurality of reader devices are physically located within a transmission zone of the wireless transmitter, wherein a first reader device of the plurality of reader devices decrypts the encrypted textual data after receipt from the wireless transmitter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:

detects a swear phrase in the textual data before the textual data is encrypted, the swear phrase identified in a catchphrase data structure, and

modifies the textual data to replace the detected swear phrase with a swear replacement phrase.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor detects the catchphrase in the textual data before modifying the textual data, the product phrase identified in wherein a catchphrase data structure identifies the catchphrase, the replacement phrase, and the website associated with the product.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the website associated with the product is corresponds to at least one of a service, a business, a brand, a sport association, an organization, or an advertisement.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the sport equipment object is one of a ball, a bat, a club, a stick, a uniform, a shoulder pad, a cap, or a helmet.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of reader devices includes reader devices logged into a social media user account.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of reader devices includes reader devices connected to a first wireless network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of reader devices each receive a transmission signal from the wireless transmitter.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission zone of the wireless transmitter is a defined zone within an event venue.

10. A system for publishing text based on recorded audio, the system comprising:

a wireless signal receiver to receive a wirelessly transmitted audio signal that conveys audio recorded by a microphone of a recorder device, the recorder device being a sport equipment object;

a wireless transmitter;

a memory;

a processor coupled to the memory, the wireless signal receiver, and the wireless transmitter, wherein execution of instructions stored in memory by the processor;

processes the audio input to detect a spoken activation code,

parses a subset of the audio input following the detected spoken activation code using a speech recognition module, the subset including a plurality of words,

generates textual data based on the plurality of words parsed by the speech recognition system,

modifies the textual data by replacing a catchphrase within the textual data with a replacement phrase associated with a product and by generating a hyperlink within the textual data, the hyperlink corresponding to the replacement phrase and leading to a website associated with the product,

generates encrypted textual data by encrypting the textual data, and

transmits the encrypted textual data to a plurality of reader devices via the wireless transmitter, wherein the plurality of reader devices are physically located within a transmission zone of the wireless transmitter, wherein a first reader device of the plurality of reader devices decrypts the encrypted textual data after receipt from the wireless transmitter.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:

detects a swear phrase in the textual data before the textual data is encrypted, the swear phrase identified in a catchphrase data structure, and

modifies the textual data to replace the detected swear phrase with a swear replacement phrase.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor detects the catchphrase in the textual data before modifying the textual data, wherein a catchphrase data structure identifies the catchphrase, the replacement phrase, and the website associated with the product.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the website associated with the product is corresponds to at least one of a service, a business, a brand, a sport association, an organization, or an advertisement.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the sport equipment object is one of a ball, a bat, a club, a stick, a uniform, a shoulder pad, a cap, or a helmet.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of reader devices includes reader devices logged into a social media user account.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of reader devices includes reader devices connected to a first wireless network.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of reader devices each receive a transmission signal from the wireless transmitter.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the transmission zone of the wireless transmitter is a defined zone within an event venue.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for publishing text based on recorded audio, the method comprising:

receiving a wirelessly transmitted audio signal at a wireless signal receiver, the wirelessly transmitted audio signal conveying audio recorded by a microphone of a recorder device, the recorder device being a sport equipment object;

processing the audio input to detect a spoken activation code;

parsing a subset of the audio input following the detected spoken activation code using a speech recognition module, the subset including a plurality of words;

generating textual data based on the plurality of words parsed by the speech recognition system;

modifying the textual data by replacing a catchphrase within the textual data with a replacement phrase associated with a product and by generating a hyperlink within the textual data, the hyperlink corresponding to the replacement phrase and leading to a website associated with the product;

generating encrypted textual data by encrypting the textual data; and

transmitting the encrypted textual data to a plurality of reader devices via a wireless transmitter, wherein the plurality of reader devices are physically located within a transmission zone of the wireless transmitter, wherein a first reader device of the plurality of reader devices decrypts the encrypted textual data after receipt from the wireless transmitter.