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US 11,445,056 B1Granted
Telephone system for the hearing impaired
AssigneeEugenious Enterprises, LLC
InventorsDaniel Yusef Abdelsamed, Michael J. Medley, Matthew G. Good
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Abstract
Technologies related to telecommunications are described herein, wherein such technologies are configured to assist users with hearing impairments. The technologies described herein cause transcriptions of spoken utterances directed to a telephone in a telephone conversation to be presented on a display of the telephone nearly simultaneously with the spoken utterances being audibly output by the telephone.
Claims20
A server computing system that is in network communication with a communications platform, the server computing system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
- receiving a request for a token from a first telephone, wherein the token is usable by the first telephone to authenticate with the communications platform;
- in response to receiving the request, transmitting credentials of the server computing system to the communications platform, wherein the token is generated by the communications platform based upon the credentials of the server computing system;
- receiving the token from the communications platform;
- in response to receiving the token from the communications platform, transmitting the token to the first telephone;
- subsequent to transmitting the token to the first telephone, receiving, from the communications platform, an incoming call notification for a first telephone, the incoming call notification indicates that a second telephone is being employed to place a call to the first telephone;
- in response to receiving the incoming call notification, transmitting instructions to the communications platform, the instructions informing the communications platform to:
- connect the call from the second telephone to the first telephone;
- and
- when the call is connected, cause a voice signal output by the second telephone to be streamed to the server computing system, wherein the voice signal is directed to the first telephone;
- upon the call being connected, receiving the voice signal and forwarding the voice signal to a transcription computing system, wherein the transcription computing system transcribes spoken utterances in the voice signal;
- receiving data from the transcription computing system, the data comprises transcriptions of the spoken utterances in the voice signal;
- and
- forwarding the transcriptions of the spoken utterances to the first telephone for display on a display of the first telephone during the call between the first telephone and the second telephone.
13 more elements
A method performed by a server computing system that is in network communication with a communications platform, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a first telephone, a request for a token that is usable by the first telephone to authenticate with the communications platform;
- in response to receiving the request, transmitting credentials of the server computing system to the communications platform, wherein the token is generated by the communications platform based upon the credentials of the server computing system;
- receiving the token from the communications platform;
- in response to receiving the token from the communications platform, transmitting the token to the first telephone;
- subsequent to transmitting the token to the first telephone, receiving, from the communications platform, an incoming call notification for the first telephone, the incoming call notification indicates that a second telephone is being employed to place a call to the first telephone;
- in response to receiving the incoming call notification, transmitting instructions to the communications platform, the instructions informing the communications platform to:
- connect the call from the second telephone to the first telephone;
- and
- when the call is connected, cause a voice signal output by the second telephone to be streamed to the server computing system, wherein the voice signal is directed to the first telephone;
- upon the call being connected, receiving the voice signal and forwarding the voice signal to a transcription computing system, wherein the transcription computing system transcribes spoken utterances in the voice signal;
- receiving data from the transcription computing system, the data comprises transcriptions of the spoken utterances in the voice signal;
- and
- forwarding the transcriptions of the spoken utterances to the first telephone for display on a display of the first telephone during the call between the first telephone and the second telephone.
10 more elements
A computer-readable storage medium of a server computing system that is in network communication with a communications platform, the computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor of the server computing system, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
- receiving, from a first telephone, a request for a token that is usable by the first telephone to authenticate with the communications platform;
- in response to receiving the request, transmitting credentials of the server computing system to the communications platform, wherein the token is generated by the communications platform based upon the credentials of the server computing system;
- receiving the token from the communications platform;
- in response to receiving the token from the communications platform, transmitting the token to the first telephone;
- subsequent to transmitting the token to the first telephone, receiving, from the communications platform, an incoming call notification for the first telephone, the incoming call notification indicates that a second telephone is being employed to place a call to the first telephone;
- in response to receiving the incoming call notification, transmitting instructions to the communications platform, the instructions informing the communications platform to:
- connect the call from the second telephone to the first telephone;
- and
- when the call is connected, cause a voice signal output by the second telephone to be streamed to the server computing system, wherein the voice signal is directed to the first telephone;
- upon the call being connected, receiving the voice signal and forwarding the voice signal to a transcription computing system, wherein the transcription computing system transcribes spoken utterances in the voice signal;
- receiving data from the transcription computing system, the data comprises transcriptions of the spoken utterances in the voice signal;
- and
- forwarding the transcriptions of the spoken utterances to the first telephone for display on a display of the first telephone during the call between the first telephone and the second telephone.
10 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.