Pre-recorded voice responses for portable telecommunication devices
AssigneeGte.Net LLC (D/B/A Verizon Internet Solutions)
InventorMichael L. SELBY
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Abstract
A portable communication device may be used so that, in place of speaking into the portable communication device during a telephone call, users may initiate playback of pre-recorded messages to the party with whom the user is communicating. In one implementation, a device may receive, during a telephone call between a first party and a second party, a command from the first party to transmit a pre-recorded message to the second party. The pre-recorded message may be an audible message that was pre-recorded by the first party. The device may transmit the pre-recorded message to the second party in response to the command.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- switching a portable communication device into a pre-recorded message mode, where the portable communication device, while in the pre-recorded message mode
- receives selections by a user of a pre-recorded message that is to be transmitted to a called party during a telephone conversation,
- transmits the pre-recorded message to the called party;
- and
- switching the portable communication device into a normal mode in which the user speaks into the portable communication device to communicate with the called party.
One or more computer-readable media containing programming instructions for execution by one or more processing devices, the computer-readable media comprising one or more instructions for:
- receiving, during a telephone call between a first party and a second party, a command from the first party to transmit a pre-recorded message to the second party, where the pre-recorded message is an audible message that was pre-recorded by the first party;
- and
- transmitting the pre-recorded message to the second party in response to the command.
A network device comprising:
- a pre-recorded message control component to receive commands from a first communication device, each command identifying a pre-recorded audible message that is to be forwarded to a second communication device;
- and
- a pre-recorded message storage component to store the audible pre-recorded messages, where the pre-recorded message control component transmits pre-recorded messages retrieved from the pre-recorded message storage component to the second communication device.
A device comprising:
- means for switching a portable communication device into a pre-recorded message mode, where the portable communication device, while in the pre-recorded message mode
- receives selections by a user of a pre-recorded message that is to be transmitted to a called party during a telephone conversation,
- transmits the pre-recorded message to the called party;
- and
- means for switching the portable communication device into a normal mode in which the user speaks into the portable communication device to communicate with the called party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.