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US 10,375,247 B2Granted
System and method for delivery of voicemails to handheld devices
AssigneeTvg, LLC
InventorsMichael Demmitt, Amit Manna, Michael Smith, Luis Arellano, Chris Pedregal, Mike LeBeau, Brian Salomaki
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Abstract
Briefly, a variety of embodiments, including the following, are described: a system embodiment and methods that allow random access to voice messages, in contrast to sequential access in existing system embodiments; a system embodiment and methods that allow for the optional use of voice recognition to enhance usability; and a system embodiment and methods that apply to the area of voicemail.
Claims24
An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device comprising an integrated voicemail system in which visual display voicemail access capability is provided for the integrated voicemail system;
- wherein the mobile device is adapted to transcribe voicemail messages to text messages and/or to forward voicemail messages to a server for transcription by the server.
An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device comprising an integrated voicemail system in which visual display voicemail access capability is provided for the integrated voicemail system such that, via a voicemail inbox, more than one voicemail message is displayed at once, including one or more visual voicemail display indicators associated with the more than one voicemail messages displayed, and for at least some of the more than one voicemail messages displayed at least a portion of a text transcription, the one or more associated voicemail display indicators also being displayed at once via the voicemail inbox;
- wherein the mobile device is adapted to receive and/or deliver one or more voicemails to a user via one or more of a plurality of message channels.
An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device comprising an integrated voicemail system in which visual display voicemail access capability is provided for the integrated voicemail system;
- wherein the mobile device is adapted to record one or more voicenotes in order for the voicenotes to be transcribed to text messages by the mobile device locally and/or to be transcribed by a non-local server after being forward from the mobile device to the non-local server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.