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;
- transcribing the audio contents into text representing the audio contents of the call;
- retrieving a phone number of the call originator;
- and
- scheduling, by the network service, a short messaging service (SMS) message to be delivered 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.
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;
- transcribing the audio contents into text representing the audio contents of the call;
- retrieving a phone number of the call originator;
- and
- scheduling, by the network service, a short messaging service (SMS) message to be delivered 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.
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;
- 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;
- and
- scheduling by the processing system, a short messaging service (SMS) message to be delivered 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.