Audio-based text messaging
AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorRobert Lee Engelhart, SR.
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Abstract
A device that enable users to send and receive a message in different formats may include a text message gateway, an audio message gateway, and a processor. The text message gateway may include a Short Message Service (SMS) gateway. The audio message gateway may include an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) unit and/or a client application interface that receives audio from a client application of a mobile communications device. The processor may be configured to convert text messages received at the text-message gateway into audio messages and then to send the audio messages via the audio message gateway. The processor may also be configured to convert audio messages received at the audio message gateway into text messages and then to send the text messages via the text message gateway.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving an audio message comprising an audio-version destination and an audio-version body, wherein the audio-version destination comprises an instant message user name;
- converting the audio message into a Short Message Service (SMS) text message that contains a text-version body that is a translation of the audio-version body, wherein the text message is addressed to a destination that corresponds to the audio-version destination;
- and
- sending the text message to the destination.
A device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising:
- receiving an audio message comprising an audio-version destination and an audio-version body, wherein the audio-version destination comprises an instant message user name;
- converting the audio message into a Short Message Service (SMS) text message that contains a text-version body that is a translation of the audio-version body, wherein the text message is addressed to a destination that corresponds to the audio-version destination;
- and
- sending the text message to the destination.
A computer-readable storage medium that is not a propagating signal, the computer-readable medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuation operations comprising:
- receiving an audio message comprising an audio-version destination and an audio-version body, wherein the audio-version destination comprises an instant message user name;
- converting the audio message into a Short Message Service (SMS) text message that contains a text-version body that is a translation of the audio-version body, wherein the text message is addressed to a destination that corresponds to the audio-version destination;
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- sending the text message to the destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.