US 7,254,385 B2 · System and method of automatic conversion of units of measure in a wireless communication network

Abstract

A system and method for automatic conversions of units of measure in a wireless communication network are provided. With the system and method, when a wireless communication device enters a region of a wireless network, the wireless communication device registers with the wireless network. The registration includes the creation of a database entry at the mobile switching center that includes an indication of the origin, such as the country code, of the wireless communication device. Based on this indication of origin, a conversion function may be identified for converting of units of measure to a format that is most likely to be understood by a user of the wireless communication device. When a text based message is sent to the wireless communication device, the text message is received by the mobile switching center which determines how to route the text message and parses the text message to identify any portions of the text message that include a unit of measure that may need to be converted. These identified units of measure are then converted using the conversion functions identified based on the identification of origin. The text message with the converted units of measure is then routed to the destination wireless communication device.

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Dependent claims

A method of automatically converting unit of measure information in a text message to be routed to a wireless communication device via a wireless communication network, comprising:

receiving a text message that is to be routed to a destination wireless communication device;
identifying an output format for unit of measure information in the text message based on an identifier of an origin of a user of the destination wireless communication device;
and
converting unit of measure information in the text message to the output format
wherein converting unit of measure information in the text message includes:
tokenizing the text message into a plurality of segments;
identifying candidate segments from the plurality of segments that may include unit of measure information;
and
analyzing the candidate segments to identify segments having unit of measure information.

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A computer program product encoded in a computer readable medium for automatically converting unit of measure information in a text message to be routed to a wireless communication device via a wireless communication network, comprising:

first instructions for receiving a text message that is to be routed to a destination wireless communication device;
second instructions for identifying an output format for unit of measure information in the text message based on an identifier of an origin of a user of the destination wireless communication device;
and
third instructions for converting unit of measure information in the text message to the output format
wherein the third instructions for converting unit of measure information in the text message includes:
instructions for tokenizing the text message into a plurality of segments;
instructions for identifying candidate segments from the plurality of segments that may include unit of measure information;
and
instructions for analyzing the candidate segments to identify segments having unit of measure information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method of automatic conversion of units of measure in a wireless communication network

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System and method of automatic conversion of units of measure in a wireless communication network

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