Controller for use with communications systems for generating a condensed text message index
AssigneeWebLink Wireless, Inc.
InventorLarry J. Martin
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Abstract
There is disclosed a non-realtime messaging system that delivers a subscriber message index to a subscriber's pager device. The subscriber message index is a condensed summary of one or more of the messages directed to the subscriber. The messaging system comprises: 1) a messaging controller for receiving oral messages directed to a subscriber and for transmitting text messages to the subscriber's pager; 2) a translating controller for generating translated text messages, wherein each of the translated text messages corresponds to one of the received oral messages; 3) a data repository capable of storing the translated text messages; and 4) a summary index controller for generating from the translated text messages the subscriber message index.
Claims23
A non-realtime messaging system comprising:
- a messaging controller operable to receive from callers oral messages directed to a first subscriber of said non-realtime messaging system and operable to transmit text messages to a communications device associated with said first subscriber;
- a translating controller, associated with said messaging controller, operable to generate translated text messages, wherein each of said translated text messages corresponds to one of said received oral messages;
- a data repository operable to store said translated text messages;
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- a summary index controller, associated with said messaging controller and said data repository, operable to generate from said translated text messages a subscriber message index, wherein said subscriber message index comprises a reduced summary of one or more of said translated text messages.
A method of operating a non-realtime messaging system the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving from callers oral messages directed to a first subscriber of the non-realtime messaging system;
- generating translated text messages, wherein each of the translated text messages corresponds to one of the received oral messages;
- storing the translated text messages;
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- generating from the translated text messages a subscriber message index, wherein the subscriber message index comprises a reduced summary of one or more of the translated text messages.
For use in a messaging system that includes a data repository operable to store text messages translated from oral messages received in said messaging system, said oral messages and said translated text messages directed to a first subscriber, a summary index controller operable to generate from said translated text messages a subscriber message index, wherein said subscriber message index comprises a reduced summary of one or more of said translated text messages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.