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US 12,348,676 B2Granted
Voicemail as a message delivered to the device
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorSreejith Menon
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example transcribing a voicemail message left by a call originator and intended for a call recipient. The resulting text is scheduled to be delivered as an SMS message to the call recipient. The source phone number in the SMS message is set to the call originator's phone number so that the transcribed voicemail text appears in a messaging application's conversation view between the call originator and the call recipient. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving, at a network service, audio contents of a call placed by a call originator and intended for a call recipient;
- retrieving settings for the call recipient to obtain retrieved settings for the call recipient, wherein the retrieved settings for the call recipient specify particular call originators for which the audio contents should be transcribed;
- determining, based on the retrieved settings for the call recipient, that the audio contents of the call placed by the call originator should be transcribed;
- transcribing the audio contents into text representing the audio contents of the call;
- retrieving a phone number of the call originator;
- determining a delay based on predicted activities of the call recipient;
- and
- scheduling, by the network service, a short messaging service (SMS) message to be delivered after the delay to a mobile device of the call recipient, wherein the SMS message includes the text representing the audio contents of the call, and includes the phone number of the call originator as a source phone number of the SMS message.
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A non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving, at a network service, audio contents of a call placed by a call originator and intended for a call recipient;
- retrieving settings for the call recipient to obtain retrieved settings for the call recipient, wherein the retrieved settings for the call recipient specify particular call originators for which the audio contents should be transcribed;
- determining, based on the retrieved settings for the call recipient, that the audio contents of the call placed by the call originator should be transcribed;
- transcribing the audio contents into text representing the audio contents of the call;
- retrieving a phone number of the call originator;
- determining a delay based on predicted activities of the call recipient;
- and
- scheduling, by the network service, a short messaging service (SMS) message to be delivered after the delay to a mobile device of the call recipient, wherein the SMS message includes the text representing the audio contents of the call, and includes the phone number of the call originator as a source phone number of the SMS message.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a processing system including a processor, audio contents of a call placed by a call originator and intended for a call recipient;
- retrieving, by the processing system, settings for the call recipient to obtain retrieved settings for the call recipient, wherein the retrieved settings for the call recipient specify particular call originators for which the audio contents should be transcribed;
- determining, by the processing system and based on the retrieved settings for the call recipient, that the audio contents of the call placed by the call originator should be transcribed;
- transcribing, by the processing system, the audio contents into text representing the audio contents of the call;
- retrieving, by the processing system, a phone number of the call originator;
- determining a delay based on predicted activities of the call recipient;
- and
- scheduling by the processing system, a short messaging service (SMS) message to be delivered to a mobile device after the delay of the call recipient, wherein the SMS message includes the text representing the audio contents of the call, and includes the phone number of the call originator as a source phone number of the SMS message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.