US 2020/0092340 A1Published application

Exchanging non-text content in real time text messages

AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.

InventorsHsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Yasmin Karimli

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Abstract

Non-text content may be exchanged in real time text (RTT) messages over a telecommunications network as part of an enhanced RTT (eRTT) service. A first UE can receive, from a second UE over a telecommunications network, capability information indicating whether the second UE is capable of exchanging text content and/or non-text content via RTT messages. Using this capability information, the first UE may determine whether to enable eRTT functionality on the first UE by determining whether to display a user interface element(s) in a selectable state on the display next to a RTT conversation window. The selectable user interface element(s), upon selection, allows a user of the first UE to create new non-text content, or select particular non-text content from available non-text content, for inclusion in a RTT message. The first UE may thereafter send non-text content in the RTT message to the second UE.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A first user equipment (UE) comprising:

a processor;
a display;
and
memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the first UE to:
receive, from a second UE over a telecommunications network, capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging text content and types of non-text content via real time text (RTT) messages;
display, based at least in part on the capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging at least the text content via the RTT messages, a RTT conversation window on the display;
display, based at least in part on the capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging the types of non-text content via the RTT messages, a non-text selection region on the display adjacent to the RTT conversation window comprising selectable user interface elements, the selectable user interface elements including icons respectively corresponding to the types of non-text content that the second UE is capable of exchanging;
receive user input selecting one of the icons;
insert a file into a RTT message, the file being created or selected by a user of the first UE and comprising non-text content corresponding to the one of the icons;
and
send, over the telecommunications network, the file via the RTT message to the second UE.

8 more elements

A method to be implemented by a first user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, from a second UE over a telecommunications network, capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging text content and a first type of non-text content via real time text (RTT) messages;
displaying, based at least in part on the capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging at least the text content via the RTT messages, a RTT conversation window on a display of the first UE;
displaying, based at least in part on the capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging the first type of non-text content via the RTT messages, a first user interface element in a selectable state and a second user interface element in an unselectable state on the display, wherein the first user interface element, upon selection, allows a user of the first UE to include the first type of non-text content in a RTT message and the second user interface element corresponds to a second type of non-text content not indicated in the capability information;
and
sending, by the first UE over the telecommunications network, the first type of non-text content via the RTT message to the second UE.

2 more elements

A method to be implemented by a first user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, from a second UE over a telecommunications network, capability information indicating whether the second UE is capable of exchanging text content and/or non-text content via real time text (RTT) messages;
displaying, based at least in part on the capability information indicating that the second UE is capable of exchanging at least the text content via the RTT messages, a RTT conversation window on a display of the first UE;
displaying, based at least in part on the capability information, a non-text selection area on the display including user interface elements in a selectable state corresponding to types of non-text content;
receiving a selection of one of the user interface elements to include a respective one of the types of non-text content in a RTT message;
and
sending, by the first UE over the telecommunications network, the one of the types of non-text content via the RTT message to the second UE.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/692,566Filed 22 Nov 2019
Priority: 31 Aug 2017
Published: 19 Mar 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 65/1089
In-session procedures: by adding media; by removing media
H04L 51/04
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: real-time or…
H04L 65/1016
Architectures or entities: iP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
H04L 65/1059
Architectures or entities: end-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication

Family

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